[ale] quick oddball questions

[Brad Dixon]

Hello everyone,

I've made the jump, and doing quite well thanks to ample experience with 
Linux/Unix in other places. I have a few oddball questions that I haven't 
been able to dig up an answer to yet:

1) When I attempt to "adduser" I get password file still locked. I've 
tried various routines and exiting programs, but it is still locked. Any 
ideas?

2) I heard a rumor that there is an ftp filesystem that I can use to 
mount a remote ftp site like an actual directory. If this isn't bunk, 
does anyone have a name and/or location?

3) I'm running RedHat, and have noticed that the Debian package manager 
has many packages which would be nice to have. If I were carefull and 
cross checked dependencies and such, would using the debian package 
manager for a few packages I want be destructive? Any previous 
experiences with such?

Thanks for your help,

Brad

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Brad Dixon                                                                  
Georgia Tech Research Institute -- Atlanta, GA                             
bdixon at cmdl.gtri.gatech.edu