On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:47 -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2004, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > chroot into the dir and look to see what you see when you run 'id rpm' > > + id rpm > id: rpm: No such user > > I don't know what package creates the rpm user. > in the chroot do you have /etc/passwd? what does /etc/nsswitch.conf say in the chroot? the package rpm makes the rpm users -sv