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To: Balchand N <balchand@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: useradd:cannot rewrite password file

From: Joseph Dennis Gapuz <jo_dennis2@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:34:31 -0700 (PDT)

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Could you send us the process on how you add the user, this is odd

Regards,
Joseph

Balchand N wrote:

of course i am.

bala

On 6/22/05, Richard E Miles <r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:11:52 +0530
Balchand N <balchand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi,

I just installed fedora core 3. while everything works fine, i am
unable to add user accounts because of this problem. i checked for any
.lock files in etc. but none. kindly help me in this regard

bala

Are you running as root?


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