Usage of rpm applet

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 14 10:49:01 UTC 2006


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Monday 13 February 2006 7:44 pm, Andy Green wrote:
> > > *) unknown user/group name
> >
> > I guess the RPM has files inside it with the original user:group
> > specified inside the cpio archive.  After unpack, it tries to set the
> > user:group on the files, but your system does not have these names in
> > /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>
> Should we add the user:group to /etc/passwd if it doesn't exist?  (With
> default shell /dev/null?)
>
> What does the full RPM implementation do in this case?

the normal behaviour of rpm would be:

"warning: user fred does not exist - using root"

rday



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