On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:12 -0500, Ali Sobhi wrote: > I just ran into this problem on FC4 that the command line "useradd" dies > with no messages and leaves .lock files in /etc/ > Selinux is disabled and I'm using "root" account to add users. > The home directory is created with a uid and gid but passwd, group and the > corresponding shadow files are not updated > > However, while using the GUI version, I'm able to add users ! > what happened? > > Regards, > > Ali Sobhi > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sr. Consultant - Austin Accessibility Center - IBM Research > 512-823-0064 (T/L 793) sobhi@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.ibm.com/able/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure you don't have any excessivly long lines in : /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow I ran into a problem recently where someone had hundreds of users assigned to a group and useradd would fail without explanation. I discovered it after I backed up all those files and used vipw and vigr to delete all the extra accounts, I discovered that every user had been added to the users group. 'strace' may have shown the problem, but I didn't have to resort to that level of diagnostics to solve the problem. Good Luck -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list