I am brand new to NetBSD (and Unix in general).

I have successfully booted the latest version (at least the lastest from 
NetBSD.org) on a Mac IIci and edited rc.conf to allow multiuser mode. I 
log in as root in hopes of making other users, but when I try to run 
vipw, I get an error saying the passwd file is busy. When I try to run 
adduser, the command is not found.

Two questions present themselves:

1)  Why is the passwd file busy, and how do I (can I) stop this?

2)  Is adduser part of the basic.tgz set? I didn't install the optional 
utility set, and so that could be why the command is not found.

Although the set up instructions say not to do so, I tried editing the 
etc/passwd file directly in an attempt to add users. (I found a reference 
to the format in my UNIX book.) Is this contributing to my problem?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Ron Southwick