Re: passwd file is locked

[Gregory Wood]

Sorry about this -- answering my own question.   The problem was passwd.lock. Deleted and it works fine. However, in general it is better to: rm *-        (passwd-, shadow-, etc) rm ptmp rm *.lock    (passwd.lock, etc)   Make sure before you do that you are only getting passwd, shadow, and group.   *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/28/01 at 5:01 PM Gregory Wood wrote: There is probably an easy answer for this -- but I don't know it.   I was operating remotely, changing a password for a user and got the message: segmentation fault. I went to the server and looked over the files and the processes and found nothing. So, I ran the passwd program again and this time I got: passwd is locked. Try again later.   So what's the deal?   Thanks in advance.   Greg