QA – Useradd: unable to lock password file

cloudflashes — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:02:50 +0000

Q:

Under Red Hat Linux release 9, use root to add a user, get error message as below:

useradd: unable to lock password file

Needed to remove a lock file

Under the /etc directory, there are some lock files as:
group.lock
gshadow.lock
passwd.lock
shadow.lock

or
.pwck.lock
.pwd.lock

Remove them.

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cloudflashes — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:39:49 +0000

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