[4292] in RedHat Linux List
Re: locked password
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Schout)
Wed Nov 13 21:19:54 1996
From: Mike Schout <mike@Twoface.tamu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:16:54 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961113091820.320A-100000@localhost> from bomber at "Nov 13, 96 09:19:52 am"
Reply-To: m-schout@tamu.edu
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> ok...I know someone else had this problem, but I can't remember the
> solution. Whenever root tries to add a user with
> adduser <username>
> All I get is the message:
>
> /etc/passwd is locked. Try again later.
>
You need to get the updates to redhat-4.0 for ftp.redhat.com in the
updates directory. I believe the package that causes that problem is PAM
specifically. Upgrading the package will fix it, or removing
/etc/.pwd.lock will do it too
Mike
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