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Subject: Re: i386/35816: no one can change password, because "passwd DB is locked"
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Synopsis: no one can change password, because "passwd DB is locked"

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: billf
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 12 03:41:48 PST 2002
State-Changed-Why: 
this is not a bug. root can find the process that is holding the lock
on the password database and kill both it and the user holding it.


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