Hello everyone,

I'm not familiar with rpm internals, but I was toying with the rpm
command and found out that it seems to be skipping some files in the
--verify action, for example it didn't check /etc/hosts and passwd:

[root@sltest02 ~]# echo '# some comment' >> /etc/hosts
[root@sltest02 ~]# echo '# some comment' >> /etc/hosts.allow
[root@sltest02 ~]# echo '# some comment' >> /etc/bashrc
[root@sltest02 ~]# useradd -m foobar
[root@sltest02 ~]# sync

[root@sltest02 ~]# grep foobar /etc/passwd
foobar:x:500:500::/home/foobar:/bin/bash

[root@sltest02 ~]# rpm --verify setup
S.5....T.  c /etc/bashrc
S.5....T.  c /etc/hosts.allow

[root@sltest02 ~]# rpm -v --verify setup | grep passwd
.........  c /etc/passwd

[root@sltest02 ~]# rpm -v --verify setup | grep hosts
.........  c /etc/hosts
S.5....T.  c /etc/hosts.allow
.........  c /etc/hosts.deny

seems like /etc/hosts and /etc/passwd are not being checked, is this
normal? I made the same test on CentOS 5.6 and it seems that passwd is
not being checked there too (/etc/hosts is not part of the setup package).

some infos on my test system: rpm-4.8.0-12.el6.x86_64,
rpm-libs-4.8.0-12.el6.x86_64
linux kernel 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64

thanks in advance for any info or advice :)

Gilberto "Velenux" Ficara