On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:07:00AM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > FYI: You should use useradd (groupadd) to portably create accounts. > useradd will fail if the account exists. You still have an issue: > if there's a chance the account was created by something else, you > need a way to know whether userdel (groupdel) it on package > removal - same problem you have now with manually adding entries. Hmmm. Perhaps userdel ought to have a flag which would remove the user account only if the GECOS field matched a given string. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list