i've seen this one before, I think it was a PAM module however I was never
able to set a password that way, I had to use the passwd command for that.
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Sherman Tsang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a bit of trouble with a very simple thing that i have done lots
> of times over... i am just trying to add a user using the 'adduser' command
> in the following manner:
>
> adduser -p myPasswwd aUser
>
> i enter it, and then it sits there, thinks a while, then comes up with the
> following msg:
>
> adduser: unable to lock password file
>
> Does anyone know what i could have done wrong? Or if something else is
> wrong? The msg kind of worries me a bit as well...
>
> Thx,
>
> Sherman
>
>
>
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