On 01/12/2012 10:28 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2012 05:53:42 g wrote:
if you compare "/etc/shadow" to "/etc/shadow.rpmnew" when it is there,
you will see that yum/rpm has added a program's name to "/etc/shadow"
when yum/rpm adds a new program that needs to be assigned an id.
this also happens to "/etc/group", "/etc/gshadow", and "/etc/passwd".
why "/etc/shadow.rpmnew" was removed is hard to answer.
AFAIK, yum/rpm can use the "usual" method of getting an id for a new program
(calling useradd or similar), which doesn't involve creating a shadow.rpmnew
file.
Besides, this would be understandable if there actually were any new programs
to be assigned an id during an update. But in this case there weren't any, and
additionally the timestamp on /etc/shadow has not changed since I last created
a user, so nothing was actually modified.
I am just baffled by the existence of the warning about /etc/shadow.rpmnew,
which also turns out to not exist at all.
It's not a big deal after the fact, but it just triggered the
"this-shouldn't-happen" alarm in my head when I saw the warning. Hence the
question... :-)
Here's what happens to the .rpmnew files from setup:
[pmatilai@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --scripts setup | head -4
postinstall scriptlet (using <lua>):
for i, name in ipairs({"passwd", "shadow", "group", "gshadow"}) do
os.remove("/etc/"..name..".rpmnew")
end
Been there for some time now too:
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.8.1-1
[...]
- added postun section for cleaning of dangerous .rpmnew
files after updates
- Panu -
Best, :-)
Marko
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