#474 432- Adopting sysuser.d format
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  This section lists changes in Fedora {PRODVER} relevant to system administrators.

  Use the navigation tab on the left to view release notes for various fields of interest.

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+ == System-Wide Change: Adopting sysusers.d format

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+ Previously, users were created in `%pre` file by calling the commands `getent`, `useradd`, and `groupadd`.

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+ With this update, user are defined in the `sysusers.d` format. 

+ It adds an rpm package `Provides generator` to create user(<name>) and group(<name>) virtual Provides for packages with sysusers.d files. 

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+ An rpm package `Provides` generator is added to generate user(<name>) and group(<name>)  for packages with sysusers.d files.

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+ As a benefit:

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+ * the packages declare system users using a uniform syntax.

+ * standardize the scriptlet part.

+ * admins may easily introspect the system user list and which packages require users.

+ * admins may easily override definitions of system users by providing appropriate `sysusers.d` files with higher priority.

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+ NOTE: users are still created using old-style `useradd` calls.

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+ As a result, it makes possible to introspect system users.

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