[CentOS] rpm user and groups

Mon May 21 21:13:02 UTC 2012
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 05/21/12 1:51 PM, Markus Falb wrote:
> This is a rpm question.
> For example, mysql-server is adding mysql user with uid 27
> Is this something I can ask the rpm db?
>
> It seems not, because something like the following seems to give me no
> useful information regarding users or uids
>
> $ rpm -qa --provides|grep mysql
>
> I would like to ask: what package would install uid XXX. How? Not possible?

afaik, its done by shell scripts that are embedded in the package and 
run before or after the files in the package are copied.

so, there's no real way to do it, short of querying all those 
preinstall/postinstall scripts and somehow parsing them for useradd type 
commands.



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