> >Synopsis:       useradd has left the password file locked.

The 'current' useradd reports:
# userdel --help
userdel: unknown option -- -
userdel: unknown option -- h
userdel: unknown option -- e
userdel: unknown option -- l
userdel: option requires an argument -- p
Usage: userdel -D [-p preserve]
Usage: userdel [-p preserve] [-r] [-v] user

and doesn't lock the password file.

I've just fixed it to report the usage on an unknown option.

I suspect that --help was escaping through libc's broken getopt() code in 1.6

Dunno what locked the pw file.

	David

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