can't add new users :(

Hi,

Does anyone know what would cause this to happen? Everytime i try to add a user to the system through the adduser command?

boxen:/home# adduser dasani
adduser: unable to lock password file
boxen:/home#

boxen:/home# useradd dasani
useradd: unable to lock password file
boxen:/home#

boxen:/home# ls -al -h --color /etc/pass*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20k Sep 30 15:38 /etc/passwd
-rw------- 1 root root 20k Sep 30 00:17 /etc/passwd-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Apr 12 2002 /etc/passwd.OLD
boxen:/home# ls -al -h --color /etc/shad*
-r-------- 1 root root 17k Sep 30 15:38 /etc/shadow
-rw------- 1 root root 16k Sep 30 00:17 /etc/shadow-
boxen:/home# ls -al -h --color /etc/group*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6k Sep 30 15:38 /etc/group
-rw------- 1 root root 4.6k Sep 24 00:34 /etc/group-
boxen:/home#

Does anyone have any ideas? i need to be able to add some new users pretty soon.

 

 

 

 

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