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Index: shadow-4.5/src/userdel.c
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--- shadow-4.5.orig/src/userdel.c
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+++ shadow-4.5/src/userdel.c
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@@ -143,8 +143,9 @@ static void usage (int status)
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 	                  "\n"
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 	                  "Options:\n"),
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 	                Prog);
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-	(void) fputs (_("  -f, --force                   force removal of files,\n"
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-	                "                                even if not owned by user\n"),
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+	(void) fputs (_("  -f, --force                   force some actions that would fail otherwise\n"
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+			"                                e.g. removal of user still logged in\n"
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+			"                                or files, even if not owned by the user\n"),
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 	              usageout);
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 	(void) fputs (_("  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit\n"), usageout);
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 	(void) fputs (_("  -r, --remove                  remove home directory and mail spool\n"), usageout);