Henne wrote the following, let me sent it now on his behalf: Hello Users: There is a Bug which affects the adding of system users in the following packages: aaa_base avahi beagle cups dbus-1 festival fuse gdm hal ntp openssh PolicyKit postfix pulseaudio pwdutils samba scrollkeeper uuid-runtime You have to reinstall them to get the correct users created on your system. You can do so either in YaST or use zypper for i in aaa_base avahi beagle cups dbus-1 festival fuse \ gdm hal ntp openssh PolicyKit postfix pulseaudio pwdutils \ samba scrollkeeper uuid-runtime; \ do rpm -q $i && echo zypper in -f $i; done For details see also the most annoying bugs for 11.0: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev Hope this works and is helpfull, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126