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add work by Matthias S. Benkmann which is the inspiration for this project.
| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:45:01 +0000 |
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| 1 #!/bin/sh | |
| 2 # Copyright (c) 2004 Matthias S. Benkmann <article AT winterdrache DOT de> | |
| 3 # You may do everything with this code except misrepresent its origin. | |
| 4 # PROVIDED `AS IS' WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND! | |
| 5 | |
| 6 if [ $# != 1 -o "$1" = '--help' ]; then | |
| 7 echo 1>&2 'USAGE: uninstall_package <package-name>' | |
| 8 exit 1 | |
| 9 fi | |
| 10 echo | |
| 11 echo '# If package '"$1"' has setuid root binaries, then you need to be' | |
| 12 echo '# root for the following to work.' | |
| 13 echo '# Otherwise, you can do it as user '"$1"'.' | |
| 14 echo | |
| 15 echo 'forall_direntries_from "'"$1"'" -depth \( -type d -exec echo rmdir {} \; \) -or \( -not -type d -exec echo rm -f {} \; \)' | |
| 16 echo | |
| 17 echo '# After successfully deleting all files, you may want to remove the' | |
| 18 echo '# package user '"$1"'. But remember that if you do that you need to' | |
| 19 echo '# remove or change ownership of '"$(eval echo ~"$1")"'. Unless you are' | |
| 20 echo '# certain that you will never re-install '"$1"', it is probably better to' | |
| 21 echo '# just keep the package user '"$1"' and its home directory around.' | |
| 22 echo '# Anyway, if you want to delete the account, you can use the following' | |
| 23 echo '# command:' | |
| 24 echo | |
| 25 echo 'userdel "'"$1"'"' | |
| 26 echo | |
| 27 echo '# If your /etc/login.defs has USERGROUPS_ENAB set to "yes" (the default),' | |
| 28 echo '# then userdel will automatically delete the package user'"'"'s group if' | |
| 29 echo '# its name is identical to the user name. Otherwise, if you want to delete' | |
| 30 echo '# the package user'"'"'s group, you will need to use the `groupdel'"'"' command.' | |
| 31 echo |