Re: What is /etc/.pwd.lock for ?

[Sami Dalouche <samid@ifrance.com>]

Is it not a lockfile for vipw or other similar utils which are used to change the /etc/passwd cleanly ?
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 09:48:06PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I deleted /etc/.pwd.lock on a test box I play with.  It was dated 15
> apr.  I thought it was just a stale lock file from the last time I created a
> user.  Rebooting the same machine to an install of Red Hat, I discovered
> that the same file existed in /etc of the RH system.  The time stamps on the
> files correspond to the dates I installed the respective systems.
> 
> 	I think now that it was not a stale file, but can't find what
> purpose it serves.  Its name would suggest it has something to do with
> passwords, but nonw of the man pages associated with passwd or shadow make
> mention of it.  The shadow man pages speak of file locking without giving
> details (ie, not specifically naming the log file).
> 
> 	Does anyone know what the file is for, or failing that, where I
> might look, aside from the above man pages, to learn more ?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	Gerald
> 
> 
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