Upgrade from RH 6.2 to beta3 upgrade.log reports the installation of /etc/passwd.rpmnew. As long as the skeleton passwd has already been changed, how about adding the mysql user to the stock /etc/passwd (locked out, of course), given the fact that MySQL was added to the distribution?
No, the standard way to do this is to add the user with the mysql package. In fact, I'm wondering if the change to /etc/passwd shouldn't be backed out (it should definitely be done in a %post somewhere...) b
It is being added by the mysql package - as for changing the default password file, we just removed the long obsolete gopher user.