Stephen Gran on 2 Aug 2006 22:37:29 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] bad group name...


On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:01:22PM -0400, George Gallen said:
> what is bizaar,
>  
> If I try to addgroup -g new# existing-non-known-group it says the group name is not unique
> If I try to addgroup -g existing# unique-group-name it says the group ID is not unique
>  
> So it knows the groups exist and the GID exist, but I do a groups username I get:
>  
> [root@alpha /]# groups george
> id: cannot find name for group ID 100
> id: cannot find name for group ID 554
> id: cannot find name for group ID 555
> id: cannot find name for group ID 600

Try `getent group`.  If you can't interpret the output, please send it
along (gzipped hopefuly)
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