create new user

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 11 14:59:43 UTC 2015


hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2015, 11:27 -0300 schrieb Sergio Schvezov:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 03:13:01PM +0100, roger peppe wrote:
> > I'd quite like to make a new user on my snappy instance (so that I don't
> > need to use "ssh ubuntu at ..." every time), but I get this response:
> > 
> > ubuntu at localhost:~$ sudo adduser rog
> > Adding user `rog' ...
> > Adding new group `rog' (1001) ...
> > groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
> > adduser: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1001 rog' returned error code 10. Exiting.
> > ubuntu at localhost:~$
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Nothing, /etc/group and /etc/passwd are read only.
> 
> Someone needs to teach adduser to look at lib-nssextrausers
> 
the matching bug report is at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adduser/+bug/1323732

ciao
	oli




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