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Title: Cannot lock the password file; try again later. Post by: slackphil on Sunday 08 January 2012, 05:25:55 am Just installed 2.5 in a vm as well as an itx.. i cannot change the passwd for root and make it stick, i even tried option 0 for shell and ran `login` and tried to change from there with `passwd` it asked for password twice like norm but gave an error.. Cannot lock the password file; try again later.
this happened on both installs.. any hints? Title: Re: Cannot lock the password file; try again later. Post by: slackphil on Sunday 15 January 2012, 12:53:58 am Ok so I figured this one out.. After getting a shell (option 0) and after logging in with login command and entering the default root password (endian) I ran the following..
Code: passwd then type password in twice of course Code: passwd -u root and that fixed it for me.. |