The file /etc/deluser.conf
contains defaults for the
programs deluser(8) and
delgroup(8). Each line holds a single
value pair in the form option
= value
. Double or
single quotes are allowed around the value, as is whitespace around the
equals sign. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first
column.
deluser(8) and delgroup(8) also
read /etc/adduser.conf
, see adduser.conf(5);
settings in deluser.conf
may overwrite settings made in
adduser.conf
.
The valid configuration options are:
If REMOVE_HOME or REMOVE_ALL_FILES
is activated, all files are backed up before they are removed. The
backup file that is created defaults to username.tar(.gz|.bz2)
in the directory specified by the BACKUP_TO option. The
compression method is chosen to the best that is available. Values may
be 0 or 1. Defaults to 0
.
Select compression algorithm for a home directory backup. Can be set
to any suffix recognized by tar --auto-compress.
Defaults to .gz
.
If BACKUP is activated, BACKUP_TO specifies the directory the backup is written to. Defaults to the current directory.
A regular expression which describes all filesystem types which should be excluded when looking for files of a user to be deleted. Defaults to "(proc|sysfs|usbfs|devtmpfs|devpts|afs)".
A list of regular expressions, space separated. All files to be
deleted in course of deleting the home directory or user-owned files
elsewhere are checked against each of these regular expressions. If a
match is detected, the file is not deleted. Defaults to a list of system
directories, leaving only /home
. Therefore only files below
/home
belonging to that specific user are going to be
deleted.
Only delete a group if there are no users belonging to this group. Defaults to 0.
Removes all files on the system owned by the user to be removed. If
this option is activated REMOVE_HOME has no effect.
Values may be 0 or 1. Defaults to 0
.
Removes the home directory and mail spool of the user to be removed.
Value may be 0 (don't delete) or 1 (do delete). Defaults to
0
.
/etc/deluser.conf
adduser.conf(5), delgroup(8), deluser(8)