[Gllug] unable to lock file

[Ben Harwood]

Hi,

I was attempting to add a user on my Debian system and i kept getting the message "useradd: unable to lock password file" then i kept getting bad block errors so i rebooted and ran fsck and i seem to have fixed the bad blocks problem. However now I cannot logon to my box. Everytime i type the login name it just says "Password incorrect" 5 times before timing out. So i've logged in as root in single user-mode and i'm wondering what I need to do, perhaps with my /etc/passwd file ?

TIA

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Ben Harwood
benguin at blueyonder.co.uk

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