Re: Safe removal of a user while purging

> I suggest using the useradd command to add a user and userdel command
> to remove it. Both commands belong to the passwd package which I
> suppose is essential, so always installed.

Unfortunatly not. 'dpkg -p passwd'

Package: passwd
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 908
Maintainer: Karl Ramm <kcr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: i386
Source: shadow
Version: 20000902-12
Replaces: manpages (<= 1.15-2)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpam0g (>= 0.72-1), login (>= 970502-1), 
libpam-modules (>= 0.72-5)
Conflicts: shadow-passwd, pam-apps, suidregister (<< 0.50)
Filename: pool/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12_i386.deb
Size: 274350
MD5sum: 86bcf311fef7ad9f2185776a32958d87
Description: Change and administer password and group data.



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