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To: Valerio Daelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vipw: could not lock the passwd file: : Operation not
supported
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:20:10 -0500
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On 6/6/05, Valerio Daelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> we have FreeBSD 5.4 jail which is mounted via NFS from a host machine.
> The filesystem containing the jail is mounted from a remote machine.
> Everything is fine, except when I try to add a user in the jail I get a:
>
> vipw: could not lock the passwd file: : Operation not supported
>
> I solved the problem in pwd_mkdb using the -i switch.
> But I can't find any similar options in vipw.
> Has anyone an idea about this?
> Bye
>
> Valerio Daelli
It sounds like your not logged in as root, I'm sure you are but I have
never played with jails. Have you tried the adduser or pw commands?,
vipw is not the best tool for adding users because you can fsck your
system if your not careful.
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