passwd and adduser fail on FC3

Radek Vokal radekvokal at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 21:36:10 UTC 2005


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:57:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
<rahulsundaram at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:22:47 -0800 (PST), Zach Wilkinson
> <ztwilkinson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Just installed new FC3, yum update, etc.
> >
> > Trying to add additional user accounts via adduser and
> > getting the following error:
> >
> > # adduser testuser
> > adduser: cannot rewrite password file

Doublecheck if you're root and you have correct rights for passwd file

> 
> try useradd

Can't change that much while adduser is symlinked to useradd... 

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