Subject: Re: User Management
To: NetBSD/i386 Discussion List <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/11/2004 00:35:58
[ On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 09:27:51 (-0400), Glenn Jarvis wrote: ]
> Subject: User Management
>
> useradd: can't obtain pw_lock: File exists
>
> I tried rebooting,logging back in as root and tried again with the same
> result.
Unfortunately there are still far too many critical interlocks (like
/etc/ptmp) that are not cleared up on reboot (though of course NetBSD is
far from being unique in having this problem :-).
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