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You might want to look into why Yast2 fails.

Same basic problem. /etc/passwd+ is created, rename() fails. The below is part of strace -f yast2. [pid 21991] open("/etc/passwd+", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 11 [pid 21991] umask(022) = 0777 [pid 21991] fchown32(0xb, 0, 0) = 0 [pid 21991] fchmod(11, 0644) = 0 [pid 21991] fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 [pid 21991] old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401eb000 [pid 21991] write(11, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 2396) = 2396 [pid 21991] fsync(11) = 0 [pid 21991] close(11) = 0 [pid 21991] munmap(0x401eb000, 4096) = 0 [pid 21991] rename("/etc/passwd+", "/etc/passwd") = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy) [pid 21991] open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/shadow.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 21991] open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/shadow.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 21991] write(2, "useradd: cannot rewrite password"..., 38) = 38 Greg