Re: [owl-users] add user.

From: Radek Michalski (radek@private)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 06:22:49 PDT

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> Hi,
>
> Tank's to Solar I made a CD with Live OWL.
> I can do almost everything with it, but I can not
> add a new user to it. Can anybody help me with it !
>
> When I am in chroot and try to add the user adam
> I got :
> # useradd adam
> useradd: cannot lock shadow password file

Hi Adam,

recently I had this problem while installing Owl on hard disk. This was
caused by inproper /etc/ directory permissions.
They should be like:

drwxr-xr-x   27 root     root         4096 Sep 15 08:44 etc

Greetings
Radek Michalski

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