useradd problem

[stlinux]

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i have installed arch and when it comes to the new booted screen, it comes up with login i enter root and then this command to create a new user,

# useradd -m -s /bin/bash username

and it then gives me a password error without letting me enter the password command.


Please help!!!!

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Not sure it'll work, but try adduser instead.

Let us know.

[stlinux]

unfortunately they both come with the same problem "unable to lock password file"

[oz]

I'm really not sure what's going on here.

Have you already created a root password?

[Thrillhouse]

Sounds like the root file system might be mounted read-only. Check /etc/fstab. Make it read-write if so.

[stlinux]

im not sure but how do i set root password,

[Thrillhouse]

Easy:

#passwd root

[stlinux]

but when i try that and enter new password it comes up with

"passwd: Authentication token lock busy"

[Thrillhouse]

That's why I think your fstab is mounting the root filesystem as read-only. Post the output of:

cat /etc/fstab

and we can check it. If that's not the problem, we can move on to other possibilities.

[stlinux]

just wrote it in, and what am i going to be looking for