rpm dependency on shadow-utils blocks install / upgrade and seems superfluous.

[rjkrish]

The upgrade of influxdb from 1.3.3 to 1.6.0 fails on PhotonOS

Linux photon-machine 4.9.114-1.ph2-esx #1-photon SMP Wed Jul 25 22:23:48 UTC 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5257U CPU @ 2.70GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

influxdb-1.3.3 is already installed and running and it cannot be upgraded

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root@photon-machine [ /tmp ]# yum install influxdb
Found 1 problem(s) while resolving

1. nothing provides shadow-utils needed by influxdb-1.6.0-1.x86_64
   Error(1301) : Hawkey general runtime error

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The installation can be forced with rpm -i --nodeps and influxdb seems to be working fine.

Looks like the shadow-utils dependency was introduced by PR #3505 for issue #3447

But useradd is present in the system and influxdb-1.3.3 is already running so shadow-utils is not really needed.

root@photon-machine [ /etc/systemd/system ]# which useradd
/usr/sbin/useradd

Steps to reproduce:

1. yum install influxdb-1.6.0

Expected behavior: influxdb installs without requiring shadow-utils for useradd

Actual behavior: upgrade failed

Additional info: n/a

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