Downloadtest is what it was. I was wrong initially and changed your=20
instructions accordingly.
> It means it didn't happen. In your mail below you said
> the group name was "downloads" not "Downloadtest".
> Could this possibly be the source of your problem?
>
> Remember too that Unix is case-sensitive. The string
> "Xyz" is not the same as "xyz". Furthermore, although
> it's not forbidden to do otherwise, it's standard
> practice to use lower case login and group names. I
> highly recommend following that practice.
>
> Michael> On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:37 pm, Lynn David Newton wro=
te:
> 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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