Nick,<br>
<br>
Were you already running a useradd before you started this one? Maybe in another terminal session.<br>
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Try killing the process and see if the passwd.lock file is still there.<br>
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Wayne<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:list@everywhereinternet.com">list@everywhereinternet.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Help. I have an issue adding accounts to a centos box of joy that has<br>otherwise been 100% reliable.<br><br>Basically if I run a &quot;useradd test&quot; as root it returns useradd: unable to<br>lock password file.
<br><br>There is a /etc/passwd.lock file:<br><br>[root@bill etc]# more passwd.lock<br>6697<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;PID
USER&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PRI&nbsp;&nbsp;NI&nbsp;&nbsp;SIZE&nbsp;&nbsp;RSS SHARE STAT %CPU
%MEM&nbsp;&nbsp; TIME CPU COMMAND<br> 6697
root&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;25&nbsp;&nbsp; 0
22672&nbsp;&nbsp;22M&nbsp;&nbsp; 612
R&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;47.2&nbsp;&nbsp;1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;
1:02&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 useradd<br><br>Eating lots of cpu... but doing what?<br><br>If anyone has any clues I'd really appreciate the help :)<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Nick<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list
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