adding users

jmarsh · 02-25-2003, 02:34 PM

i have been adding users through ssh and the command prompt. i have added about 80 users and need to add a few more. when i try to add a user i get the following error:

useradd : unknown gid 100

does anybody know what this means?

i am having trouble doing other functions with this user.

tcaptain · 02-25-2003, 02:44 PM

gid, isn't that group id? Are you trying to add them to a non-existing group?

jmarsh · 02-25-2003, 02:49 PM

what is happening is that when i add the users it automatically creates a group with their own name.

but now it isnt doing it. it is almost like i cant add anymore groups

i am not sure what to do as i need each person to be in their own group for a private drive for themselves.

SlickWilly · 02-26-2003, 09:54 AM

[oops]

Bleh.. ignore me, talking out of my bottom...

[/oops]

Slick.

Crashed_Again · 02-26-2003, 10:13 AM

Did you try something like:

useradd -m -c "Fake User" fake

??? Perhaps you are trying to add a user thats name is an existing group name. Useradd may be trying to create the group fake and it may already exist. Also check your /etc/login.defs file. See what the default behaviour of useradd is.

How are you using the useradd command exactly?

jmarsh · 02-26-2003, 10:14 AM

i am just using it this way

useradd username

Crashed_Again · 02-26-2003, 10:24 AM

Then check your /etc/login.defs file. It will tell you how you are really using it. The thing that is strange here is the fact that you've been able to add 80 users and now all of a sudden you can't add anymore. I know I am being a pain here asking all these questions but here comes a few more:

Have you tried adding some different users?(i.e. useradd john. If that doesn't work useradd mary.)

Is this only happening for one specific user or every user you are trying to add?

jmarsh · 02-26-2003, 10:31 AM

when i tried to add a new user it started telling me that the gid 100 did not exist.

it added the new user and put them into somebody elses group.

then when i tried to add the user to the users group it wouldnt let me.

i have bigger problems though. i still am having problems with my gdm.conf file. and i know all of this relates to each other because everything worked fine until i started running into these problems with adding the users.

jmarsh · 02-26-2003, 10:40 AM

i looked throught that file and i only see that the it tells me to

create_home = yes

Crashed_Again · 02-26-2003, 11:08 AM

Well the gdm.conf file deals with X so I don't see the connection with adding users from a shell and a misconfigured gdm.conf file. Of course I could be wrong.

Also check your /etc/group file. Make sure there is a group called users and that it's gid is 100.

grep users /etc/group

You should get this:

users:x:100:

jmarsh · 02-26-2003, 12:07 PM

yes there is a user group and the id is 100. there also is a group called gdm, but the error i am getting is that there is no gdm group. that is why i am so confused

SlickWilly · 02-26-2003, 12:11 PM

do me a favour and type :

wc -l /etc/group

Let me know what the number is.?

Slick.

jmarsh · 02-26-2003, 12:36 PM

132 /etc/group

Crashed_Again · 02-26-2003, 12:40 PM

That is confusing. Why is it looking for the gdm group when adding users?

Slick what are you going after here with this word count?

jmarsh · 02-26-2003, 12:45 PM

no it is looking for the gdm group when loading

when i try to load the users it is telling me there is no gid 100, which is the users group.

both the users and gdm groups do exist