On 02/08/2013 03:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: yes, you may do that for the 'minus' suffixed files, without any issues. - rejy (rmc)

On 02/08/2013 02:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: 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)