On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:25:31 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > I'm having difficulty with building an RPM file to upgrade. The issue > comes when I need to add and delete a user. In the spec file I have it > creating the user in %pre and removing the user in %postun. I'm using > useradd and userdel to create and delete the user. When I build and > install the RPM everything works as expected, same goes when I remove > it. But when I do an rpm -U for an upgrade for some reason when all is > said and done the user does not exist. Anyone know what's going on? That's because your %postun [of the old package to be removed] is executed _last_. In it you need to evaluate $1 and make sure it's not executed during a package upgrade. Otherwise, Paul Howarth already mentioned that deleting non-fixed user ids creates a security weakness. -- Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1505_FC5 loadavg: 4.17 4.30 3.89
