On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:08:05PM -0500, Kall, Bruce A. wrote: > I tried that. There is a .lock file for passwd, shadow, gshadow and > group in /etc. I removed all 4 lock files and each time I rerun > useradd, the lock files show up again with the same result. > Other suggestions? Any other process running that may be trying to modify those files at the same time? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>