diff --git a/bsd-games.spec b/bsd-games.spec
index df28236..47e534b 100644
--- a/bsd-games.spec
+++ b/bsd-games.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Summary: Collection of text-based games
 Name: bsd-games
 Version: 2.17
-Release: 82%{?dist}
+Release: 79%{?dist}
 # Automatically converted from old format: BSD and BSD with advertising - review is highly recommended.
 License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD AND LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD-with-advertising
 URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ BuildRequires: libfl-static
 BuildRequires: flex-devel
 %endif
 BuildRequires: bison
+Requires(pre): shadow-utils
 
 %description
 Bsd-games includes adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar,
@@ -98,13 +99,6 @@ popd
 %patch -P26 -p1 -b .atc
 %patch -P27 -p1 -b .fread_chk
 
-# Create a sysusers.d config file
-cat >bsd-games.sysusers.conf <<EOF
-g gamehack -
-g gamesail -
-g gamephant -
-EOF
-
 %build
 # We include a templatized configuration settings file to set
 # reasonable defaults, and to tell the configure script not to
@@ -159,7 +153,11 @@ install -p -m 0644 acronyms* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/misc/
 mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/misc/acronyms-o.real $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/misc/acronyms-o
 popd
 
-install -m0644 -D bsd-games.sysusers.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysusersdir}/bsd-games.conf
+%pre
+for group in gamehack gamesail gamephant; do
+    getent group $group >/dev/null || groupadd -r $group
+done
+exit 0
 
 %files
 %{_bindir}/adventure
@@ -226,18 +224,8 @@ install -m0644 -D bsd-games.sysusers.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysusersdir}/bsd-games.
 %config(noreplace) %attr(664,root,games) %{_var}/games/snakerawscores
 %config(noreplace) %attr(664,root,games) %{_var}/games/bsd-fbg.scores
 %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog ChangeLog.0 THANKS YEAR2000 README.hunt trek/USD.doc/trek.me
-%{_sysusersdir}/bsd-games.conf
 
 %changelog
-* Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.17-82
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Jan 23 2025 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 2.17-81
-- Add sysusers.d config file to allow rpm to create users/groups automatically
-
-* Thu Jan 16 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.17-80
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
-
 * Wed Nov 27 2024 Sérgio Basto <sergio@serjux.com> - 2.17-79
 - Add boggle_fread_chk.patch