diff --git a/rpm.changes b/rpm.changes
index 8ecbd3b..0156b7e 100644
--- a/rpm.changes
+++ b/rpm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Oct 27 15:42:09 CEST 2023 - mls@suse.de
+
+- disable sysusers handling for now
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 11 17:07:14 CEST 2023 - mls@suse.de
 
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index ff35fb4..1be4b29 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ bash %{buildroot}/usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh %{buildroot} rpm
 echo -n "%{_target_cpu}-suse-linux-gnueabi" > %{buildroot}/etc/rpm/platform
 %endif
 
+# disable sysuser handling for now
+rm %{buildroot}/usr/lib/rpm/sysusers.sh
+rm %{buildroot}/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/sysusers.attr
+sed -e '/^%%__systemd_sysusers/s/^/#/' -i %{buildroot}/usr/lib/rpm/macros
+
 %post
 %{fillup_only -an services}
 
@@ -414,9 +419,7 @@ fi
 	/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
 	/usr/lib/rpm/rpmsort
 	/usr/lib/rpm/rpmuncompress
-	/usr/lib/rpm/rpm_macros_provides.sh
 	/usr/lib/rpm/suse
-	/usr/lib/rpm/sysusers.sh
 	/usr/lib/rpm/tgpg
 	%{_libdir}/rpm-plugins
 	%{_libdir}/librpm.so.*
@@ -444,6 +447,7 @@ fi
 /usr/bin/rpmbuild
 /usr/lib/rpm/pkgconfigdeps.sh
 /usr/lib/rpm/ocamldeps.sh
+/usr/lib/rpm/rpm_macros_provides.sh
 /usr/lib/rpm/elfdeps
 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps
 /usr/bin/rpmspec