On 02/08/2013 02:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > are these fails are no longer needed artefacts in F18 or > where they always only created by system-config-users > and so untouched by yum-updates? > > /etc/passwd- > /etc/group- > /etc/gshadow- > /etc/shadow- The passwd, group, shadow, and gshadow files under /etc/ are owned by the setup rpm package $ rpm -qf /etc/passwd setup-2.8.57-1.fc18.noarch $ rpm -qf /etc/group setup-2.8.57-1.fc18.noarch $ rpm -qf /etc/shadow setup-2.8.57-1.fc18.noarch $ rpm -qf /etc/gshadow setup-2.8.57-1.fc18.noarch However, the files with the similar names, but with '-' appended are backups created on change to the corresponding files, through user and group administration tools. So they are run-time created files, and are not owned by any rpm package, and so are not part of any update to packages. $ rpm -qf /etc/passwd- file /etc/passwd- is not owned by any package $ rpm -qf /etc/group- file /etc/group- is not owned by any package $ rpm -qf /etc/shadow- file /etc/shadow- is not owned by any package $ rpm -qf /etc/gshadow- file /etc/gshadow- is not owned by any package - rejy m cyriac (rmc) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
