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Local Groups Are Not Found/Recognized - Oct. 5, '05, 8:37:35 AM

solargus

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I'm trying to add an account, but I get the following error:

useradd: Error: Local group +Administrators does not exit

Huh??? How can it not find the +Administrators group? It *definitely* exists.

Interix can't find +Users or +SYSTEM either. This is really odd.

Thanks for your help.

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RE: Local Groups Are Not Found/Recognized - Oct. 5, '05, 8:38:58 AM

solargus

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Argh! The error is "...Local group +Administrators does not exist"

Sorry for the typo.

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RE: Local Groups Are Not Found/Recognized - Oct. 5, '05, 12:05:06 PM

Rodney

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In all likelyhood you are using the useradd script that came with SFU 3.5.
It was actually written for version 2.2 of Interix and doesn't work for Interix 3.0 or 3.5.
The thing to use are the updated scripts in the package "admin_scripts".
(Sorry it's not on the Warehouse web page, but it is at the ftp site).

With the /Tools installation utilities do:

    pkg_update -L admin_scripts

You will find the three admin scripts get placed in /usr/local/sbin.

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RE: Local Groups Are Not Found/Recognized - Oct. 5, '05, 2:05:53 PM

solargus

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It is the /usr/local/sbin version of the useradd script that I am using. However, to be absolutely sure, I re-installed it. Unfortunately, I still have the same problem.

Here is exactly what I did:
1) Downloaded the .zip file from the FTP site
2) mkdir /var/db/pkg/admin_scripts-current-bin
3) Place .zip file into /var/db/pkg/admin_scripts-current-bin
4) cd /var/db/pkg/admin_scripts-current-bin
5) pkg_update -l `pwd` admin_scripts
6) provide user name and password to installation

Then the system responded with:

Starting checks for updates
.Done.
%

At that point I went back to /usr/local/sbin, verified that the useradd script relected the new date and entered:

./useradd -g +Administrators -d /home/user -s /bin/csh -p password user

Again, I get:

useradd: Error: Local group +Administrators does not exist.

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RE: Local Groups Are Not Found/Recognized - Oct. 5, '05, 10:19:30 PM

markfunk

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That's because there is no local group called "+Administrators".

useradd works locally by default (it just knows about local accts and groups)
If you want it to work at a domain level, you need to use the -W option.
useradd is just a wrapper to Windows tools.
It is _not_ an Interix application, so it doesn't know about Interix
conventions. (like +Administrators).

So you need to do "useradd -g Administrators .... newLocalUserName"

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RE: Local Groups Are Not Found/Recognized - Oct. 6, '05, 7:58:26 AM

solargus

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Well, I did want to make the account local, but you called it right on the "+". And though I had tried it without the plus sign, I had forgotten that on that same itteration, I had also incorrectly designated the user as <domain>.<user>, mixing a second Interix construct into my command. Boy, do I feel dumb.

Thanks so much for your help. You guys know your stuff. :o)

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