why can't i create new group

luxpops · 09-10-2004, 12:37 AM

Hi all, i'm making a script to add user from an input file, it work fine until adding the user to a group name where it says that the group name i want to create is not valid
how do i create new group??
i use the groupadd command and working under red hat fedora core 1

Cedrik · 09-10-2004, 03:51 AM

maybe you did try to add a new group with a gid that already exist ?

Could you post your complete command (with options if any) that you use to create a new group ?

hindll01 · 09-10-2004, 06:51 AM

what have you written as the line of script to add the new group??

luxpops · 09-10-2004, 06:10 PM

here is the line of code:

gawk -F: 'BEGIN {n=0}
{system("groupadd " $3);}
{print "Adding user " $1; system("useradd -c " $4 " " $1); n=1}

do u need to specify the gid to make new group??

jlliagre · 09-10-2004, 08:08 PM

and what are the parameters you pass to your script ?
why is "$2" not used ?

luxpops · 09-10-2004, 09:30 PM

What i want to pass is
Username:Password:Groupname:Fullname

i used $2 in the line of code with the password which i didn't post

Cedrik · 09-11-2004, 01:36 AM

Did you try to set -g (primary group) to useradd command with $3 value ?

luxpops · 09-11-2004, 03:32 AM

i tried the useradd -g $3
but it sill doesn't create groups, it says useradd: unknown group groupname

luxpops · 09-11-2004, 03:58 AM

I finally got it working by using the groupadd command first to create new group if needed
then using the useradd -n -g $3

luxpops · 09-11-2004, 03:59 AM

thanks Cedrik the -g put me on the right track

Cedrik · 09-11-2004, 04:15 AM

good