vipw: could not lock the passwd file: : Operation not supported

[Valerio Daelli]

>From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: vipw: could not lock the passwd file: : Operation not 
>supported
>Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:20:10 -0500
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>On 6/6/05, Valerio Daelli <vdaelli at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > we have FreeBSD 5.4 jail which is mounted via NFS from a host machine.
> > The filesystem containing the jail is mounted from a remote machine.
> > Everything is fine, except when I try to add a user in the jail I get a:
> >
> > vipw: could not lock the passwd file: : Operation not supported
> >
> > I solved the problem in pwd_mkdb using the -i switch.
> > But I can't find any similar options in vipw.
> > Has anyone an idea about this?
> > Bye
> >
> > Valerio Daelli
>
>It sounds like your not logged in as root, I'm sure you are but I have
>never played with jails. Have you tried the adduser or pw commands?,
>vipw is not the best tool for adding users because you can fsck your
>system if your not careful.