useradd problem

giovannym · 06-23-2004, 06:55 PM

Hello everyone, Thanks to all of you who help us newbies out. I'm struggling a bit learning linux, but I already like it more than windows. Anyway, my question is this. I'm attempting to install oracle on my red hat 9 box. I'm creating the Oracle user accounts like this logged in as root:

# groupadd dba
# groupadd oinstall
# useradd -c "Oracle software owner" -g oinstall -G dba oracle
useradd: unknown gid 100

I get the following when I try to use the useradd command. Anyone know why it says that? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.

neo77777 · 06-23-2004, 08:13 PM

What /etc/group looks like?

homey · 06-23-2004, 08:13 PM

Sorry brain fart

neo77777 · 06-23-2004, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by homey
I'm not sure why you are using both the -g and -G features but on the last one you have
-G dba oracle but the group which you made is only called dba

Please refer to man useradd,
he is trying to create a user oracle in group oinstall and also be a member of group dba.

giovannym · 06-23-2004, 08:59 PM

my /etc/group has the following for the oracle user and the dba and oinstall groups

dba:x:513

racle
oinstall:x:514:

I went and used the graphical tool to try and see if it looked fine, and as far as I can see the oracle user was created with the primary group being oinstall and secondary group being dba. I just found that odd, wasn't expecting to see that message.