Hi, Quite some time back, I had posted on this group regarding a problem where if I try to add an user to the system, it would not permit me to do that saying "no access to passwd file". I could not get a solution then. Whereas, I followed the advise from Dan as below, it worked. Thanks to Dan and here is the solution Hello, Bala. I just got your thread about the useradd problem showing the message "useradd: cannot rewrite password files" you were facing and I got the same problem. Now I have found the solution so I wanted to let you know about it. This problem probably comes from the fact that you have SElinux enabled and something is mixed up there. The best is to simply disable SElinux like this: Change the tag SELINUX to disabled in the /etc/sysconfig/selinux file and reboot your system and it should be OK. Remember: if you are facing strange and never seen linux behaviours in the filesystem like reading/writing or execution, it is probably due to SElinux which is enabled and mixed up. Either you find out how to allow your particular file to be accessed from the proper user/context or you just disable it. Please do me a favor: post this answer in the same thread than you have posted it before on the fedora-list and also please tell me how to post there. I had several answers to questions but was not able to answer so it's a shame. Kind regards, Daniel
