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Hi everyone I'm trying to create system with RO root filesystem, so i'm using /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root along wih /etc/rwtab and /etc/statetab. Apart of numerous problems with services running on RO filesystem (which i'm constantly resolving adding entries to /etc/statetab) one thing popped up. I'm unable to add user or change his password. Error is 'cannot lock

...o manipulate the files by hand. For /etc/passwd and /etc/group (if necessary) this is easy, since it's just a plain text file with human-readable text. For /etc/shadow this is slightly more complicated, since you need to generate the password hash. For that you can use mkpasswd: https://www.aychedee.com/2012/03/14/etc_shadow-password-hash-formats/ Obviously doing this makes adding a user a nonatomic operation, so you need to take care manipulating passwd and shadow in this way. (I don't know if mkpasswd is available from a yum repo, but the included python should be there.) --keith --...