[3548] in RedHat Linux List
Re: etc/passwd is locked. Try again later.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Tolle)
Sat Nov 9 02:54:52 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:52:38 +0100 (MET)
From: Lars Tolle <Lars.Tolle@uni-c.dk>
To: "Brian D. Beers" <bbeers@hooked.net>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <328434D0.348F@hooked.net>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Brian D. Beers wrote:
Hi
> 1) when I do an adduser from the text console logged in as root, all I
> get is this:
>
> etc/passwd is locked. Try again later.
That's a known bug, look at http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata
You will have to update your pam rpm
> 2) when I try to connect to the xdm server I get nothing. One
> problem I discovered was a temp file in var/tmp was set to root
> permissions only. Now I have that set more apporpriately. I now
> get the login box and can place user name and password in it, it
> however does nothing more than ask me to login again in the same
> box.
?????
,,,
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