Re: /etc/passwd- /etc/group-
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)