[3562] in RedHat Linux List
Re: etc/passwd is locked. Try again later.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Reilly)
Sat Nov 9 08:04:44 1996
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 07:02:10 -0600
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, "Brian D. Beers" <bbeers@hooked.net>
From: John Reilly <reillyj@onramp.net>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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You need to remove the password lock file. On my system:
rm /etc/.pwd.lock {please check the file name -> I may have forgotten
already!}
John
At 08:52 AM 11/9/96 +0100, Lars Tolle wrote:
>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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