Am 08.02.2013 10:33, schrieb Rejy M Cyriac:
> However, the files with the similar names, but with '-' appended are
> backups created on change to the corresponding files, through user and
> group administration tools. So they are run-time created files, and are
> not owned by any rpm package, and so are not part of any update to packages.
> 
> $ rpm -qf /etc/passwd-
> file /etc/passwd- is not owned by any package
> $ rpm -qf /etc/group-
> file /etc/group- is not owned by any package
> $ rpm -qf /etc/shadow-
> file /etc/shadow- is not owned by any package
> $ rpm -qf /etc/gshadow-
> file /etc/gshadow- is not owned by any package

thank you for confirming this

so i can stop rsync them if i need the same users with the
same passwords on another virtual machine or drop them
completly

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