Quoting William Boshuck <bos...@math.mcgill.ca>:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:05:55PM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Tomas Bodzar
> <tomas.bod...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Richard Toohey
> > > <richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > >> That last sentence - sounds exactly like what I need - so I try
> it:
> > >>
> > >> # userdel -p testuser
> > >> usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
> > >> B B B userdel [-prv] user
> > >>
> > > I'm on current. Anyway strange that -v switch doesn't provide
> verbose
> > > output in fact and that information in password file was not
> preserved
> > > in fact. User disappeared somewhere, but where :-) Files are in
> place
> > > as you can see.
> >
> >
> >
> > >$ sudo rm -rf /home/test/
> > $ userdel -D
> > preserve false
> > $ userdel -p true
> > usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
> > userdel [-prv] user
>
> This should be 'userdel -D -p true'
> according to userdel(8).
>
I don't mean it rudely, but where do you see that in userdel(8)?
USERDEL(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual USERDEL(8)
NAME
userdel - remove a user from the system
SYNOPSIS
userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
userdel [-prv] user
The second form suggests that I should be able to do ...
userdel -p user
... doesn't it? (And that is also what the I think the FAQ is telling me.)
Thanks.
> 'userdel -p true user' also works
> if preserve has not been set to
> true (one way or another), which
> is perhaps not obvious from the
> syopsis.
