Re: useradd: unable to lock password file

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Hi,

Ok $200USD for anyone who can help me fix this now.... rebooted and it
doesn't say the file is locked anymore... the useradd command just doesn't
die or return anything and just sits there chewing data :(

Man down.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Lewi Kristianto
> Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 1:51 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject:  Re: useradd: unable to lock password file
> 
> looking forward this problem since rh8,
> why redhat came with passwd pam.d with lock file?
> 
> compare with passwd pam.d that come with mandrake
> heard, if that can avoid for corrupt database
> 
> On 9/1/05, Nick <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Help. I have an issue adding accounts to a centos box of joy that has
> > otherwise been 100% reliable.
> >
> > Basically if I run a "useradd test" as root it returns useradd: unable
> to
> > lock password file.
> >
> > There is a /etc/passwd.lock file:
> >
> > [root@bill etc]# more passwd.lock
> > 6697
> >
> >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU
> COMMAND
> >  6697 root      25   0 22672  22M   612 R    47.2  1.1   1:02   1
> useradd
> >
> > Eating lots of cpu... but doing what?
> >
> > If anyone has any clues I'd really appreciate the help :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nick
> >
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