steve@xxxxxxxxx (Steven Pritchard) writes: >> rpm does not offer a way to determine whether a package creates an user >> or not. So the 'just add an ... user before installing' requires lot of >> manual work, > > $ rpm -qp --requires openvpn-2.0-2.x86_64.rpm | grep useradd > /usr/sbin/useradd > $ rpm -qp --scripts openvpn-2.0-2.x86_64.rpm > preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): > if ! id openvpn > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then > /usr/sbin/useradd -r -s /sbin/nologin -c OpenVPN -d /etc/openvpn openvpn > fi > [...] And now: do this for a 'yum install ...' transaction which lists 100 new packages and tell me all new users inclusive information like homedir, shell and gecos... Or for a nightly 'yum upgrade' operation which adds new packages because of changed dependencies. Enrico
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