On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > 3. also having trouble adding myseld as a
> > user.  Tried adduser but came back with pw_lock File exists.  The line I
> > used: useradd -d /home/petrah -g 500 -u 1000 petra lynn hofmann.  I can't
> > seem to find any docs to  help.

That probably should be

  useradd -d /home/petrah -g 500 -u 1000 "petra lynn hofmann"

(Quote the spaces.) Do you have an /etc/ptmp file? If so, remove it.
Failed attempts sometimes leave that lying around.

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Frederick