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A duplicate group name was created in /etc/group with a different GID number
Removed the stupid group and things are working lovely
Thanks everyone
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bucholtz [mailto:mbucholtz_at_ceiss.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
> Subject: error creating new user
>
>
> Hiya,
>
> We're experiencing a problem when adding a new user to our
> machine. Its an
> alpha running 4.0E (all patches).
>
> When using the 'adduser' program, this is the error message
> we're getting:
>
> Adding new user...
> useradd: Two entries with the same group name but different
> GID's were found
> Error, exiting useradd /usr/sbin/adduser. Check /etc/passwd.
>
>
> This is a recent thing. I added a user last week and it was
> fine. I checked
> the user that I created and there isn't anything wrong that I
> could see. We
> have Enhanced Security turned on. I checked the protected
> passwd database
> (using edauth) and the entry for that user I created looks Ok
> - there aren't
> any users using its uid number.
>
> Thanks
> M.
>
Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 17:58:07 NZST