useradd: cannot rewrite password file
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Jul 1 04:31:29 UTC 2004
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:08:05PM -0500, Kall, Bruce A. wrote:
> I tried that. There is a .lock file for passwd, shadow, gshadow and
> group in /etc. I removed all 4 lock files and each time I rerun
> useradd, the lock files show up again with the same result.
> Other suggestions?
Any other process running that may be trying to modify those files at the
same time?
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