removing a group

[Michael Havens]

Thanks Lynn.

What does this mean?

[root@localhost bmike1]# groupdel Downloadtest
groupdel: error removing shadow group entry
[root@localhost bmike1]#




On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:37 pm, Lynn David Newton wrote:
>   Michael> remove it and then attempt to add it but the
>   Michael> maCHINE WON'T let me. It says that I have a
>   Michael> group with to similar of a name. I look in
>   Michael> my groups listing and there is a group
>   Michael> called 'downloads'
>
> groupdel downloads
>
> But first consult the man page for groupdel(8) because
> there are some minor considerations.
>
> Your situation suggests that the original user was
> removed improperly or incompletely. Most Unix/Linux
> systems these days are set up to create a group by the
> same name as the user and make that the new user's
> default group. If the user's name is simply whacked out
> of the password file, the group name remains, and you
> can't create a new user with the same name because the
> old group name remains. But groupdel, which is not
> needed often, will get rid of a group for you.

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