On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:09 +0530, anupama 2004 wrote: > -- > sir/madam > Hi > in my system i have installed fedora core-3 > and i dont know why some system users are deleted from /etc/passwd > file and when i start some services like postgresql , sendmail etc > the system says system user "postgres" does't exist > i have some important data in my system. so pls tell me hoew to include > these system users again without reinstalling the packages. > i tried with forcebly updating the rpms. but didn't solved the problem > IIRC, if you did an upgrade instead of a clean install, rpm creates a .rpmnew (the new file) or .rpmsave (the old file) file for each critical configuration file that needs to be replaced. Check and see if you have a /etc/passwd.rpmnew or /etc/passwd.rpmsave file. If so you probably also have a matching /etc/shadow.rpmxxx file. If these files exist then it is likely you will need to manually merge the changes into the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.
