deluser: check if specified home is a directory before removing it
On Alpine, some users use /dev/null as a home directory. When removing
such a user with `deluser --remove-home` this causes the /dev/null
device file to be removed which is undesirable. To prevent this pitfall,
check if the home directory specified for the user is an actual
directory (or a symlink to a directory).
Implementations of similar tools for other operating systems also
implement such checks. For instance, the OpenBSD rmuser(1)
implementation [0].
[0]: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/b69faa6c70c5bfcfdddc6138cd8e0ee18cc15b03/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl#L143-L151
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Signed-off-by: Sören Tempel <soeren+git@soeren-tempel.net>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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