hi all I'm trying to create a user with adduser (also tried useradd) and I'm getting the following error regarding passwords.
sudo adduser jimjamz
[sudo] password for jplush:
Adding user `jimjamz' ...
Adding new group `jimjamz' (1000) ...
Adding new user `jimjamz' (1000) with group `jimjamz' ...
Creating home directory `/home/jimjamz' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
Try again? [y/N] y
I'm on ubuntu server