Ubuntu
adduser package

  1. Bug #432964
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 432964

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: usermod fails: "cannot lock /etc/passwd"

We need to track down the program that has left those locks when crashing. Is it gdm-guest-session itself, or is it using a program to change /etc/passwd (possibly usermod itself)?