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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink184•9 months ago Login as a user. Delete the user while still logged in Run command You should get a message “you don’t exist, go away” Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with “deluser $USER” and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink41•9 months agoMy local deluser checks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id. I’m not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•9 months agoWell you could manually edit /etc/password and shadow I suppose
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•9 months agoEasy to try in a virtual machine with snapshot. Or use a filesystem snapshot
You should get a message “you don’t exist, go away”
Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with “deluser $USER” and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
My local
deluserchecks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.I’m not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.
Well you could manually edit /etc/password and shadow I suppose
I think I’ll just take your word for it.
Easy to try in a virtual machine with snapshot. Or use a filesystem snapshot