This was a deliberate change by upstream as a part of adding support for subordinate ids. You can find the full list of patches in shadow devel mailing list:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow- devel/2013-January/thread.html#9561 The specific patch affecting userdel can be found here: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow- devel/2013-January/009561.html ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu Utopic) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342875 Title: Unable to delete currently logged in user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1342875/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
