On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 10:23:53AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> Is it not a lockfile for vipw or other similar utils which are used to
> change the /etc/passwd cleanly ?
I don't think so. If it were, I would expect that vipw or other
utils (eg., adduser) would delete it upon finishing alterations to the
password file. This file seems to be constantly present. It is there on a
Red Hat 5.2 system, on another debian system, and was on the system which
prompted my initial message. Try 'ls -l /etc/.pwd.lock' and see if you
don't have it on your system.
