useradd: cannot rewrite password file

[Kall, Bruce A.]

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?

Thanks,
Bruce




Matt Krause wrote:
> check for *.lock files in /etc
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:39:22 -0500, Kall, Bruce A. <kall at mayo.edu> wrote:
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>>All of a sudden I am getting this on my Fedora 2 system that has been up
>>and running fine for some time when I try to add a new user with
>>useradd.  All I can find in bugzilla is a NOTABUG reference (116391) to
>>shadow.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
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