[plug] Re: useradd error

[Bret Busby]

Support wrote:
> 
> can somebody help me i cant adduser for some reason
> 
> [root@**** sbin]# ./useradd -g users -m -c susan-johnson lljohnson
> 
> useradd: error locking group file
> 
> gary

Perhaps

./useradd -g users  -c susan-johnson  -m lljohnson

, assuming that susan-johnson is the comment, and lljohnson the user
name?

Does the group "users" exist before the useradd command is run? If not,
use groupadd .

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Bret Busby

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