/etc/login.defs created as /etc/login.defs.rpmnew

[Marcel Rieux]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 06Jan2010 01:50, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> | On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> | > On 06Jan2010 00:24, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> | > | This message was issued while updating shadow-utils today. The weird thing is:
> | > |
> | > | ls -l /etc/login.defs.rpmnew
> | > | -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1475 2009-11-18 08:51 /etc/login.defs.rpmnew
> | > |
> | > | I did a research both on the fedoraproject and redhat sites and
> | > | there's nothing about what to do with this warning.
> | >
> | > This normally means that /etc/login.defs was not exactly as it was
> | > originally installed.
> |
> | I didn't change it. Is it possible that a program changed it?
>
> Sure, though I'd imagine unlikely. It might also be a permissions
> change; I don't know how picky rpm/yum is about this.

It's chmoded group and user readable, which is not really necessary
but doesn't change much, I suppose.