passwd and adduser fail on FC3

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 21:27:25 UTC 2005


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:22:47 -0800 (PST), Zach Wilkinson
<ztwilkinson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just installed new FC3, yum update, etc.
> 
> Trying to add additional user accounts via adduser and
> getting the following error:
> 
> # adduser testuser
> adduser: cannot rewrite password file

try useradd

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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