userdel/deluser must support deleting users from cache

[jibel]

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Describe the issue

userdel/deluser doesn’t work: the user is not /etc/passwd. We should look at integrating this.

Steps to reproduce it

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Ubuntu users: System information and logs

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Non Ubuntu users: System information and logs

Environment

• authd version: please run //TODO
• Distribution: (NAME in /etc/os-release)
• Distribution version: (VERSION_ID on /etc/os-release):

Log files

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authd logs can be found in //TODO

Application settings

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You can get the configuration file from //TODO

Relevant information

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[adombeck]

userdel/deluser are not aware of NSS sources, they only delete users from /etc/passwd. NSS doesn't seem to support deleting entries. Maybe we should ship our own command-line tool which supports deleting users from the authd cache. We could only consider patching userdel/deluser if we really want those to work with authd, but I'm not sure if that's necessary. Maybe documenting our own command-line tool is good enough.

[jibel]

won't do. To many changes on the distro side.