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Operating Systems Solaris Groups is not visible Post 302966535 by Don Cragun on Saturday 13th of February 2016 05:38:42 AM

02-13-2016

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So what other database is holding the groups information for your system. Note that user inf7 is not in group A or B (which do not exist in /etc/group) and is not in group A or B in the getent group group A or B shown in the list you provided in post #3 in this thread. It is also interesting to note that there is no need to add someone to both groups; both groups have the same group ID (2560).

Note also that you have also shown us that user ad3059 does not exist in the getent group output for groups C or D either, so it appears that user ad3059 only appears in the local /etc/group file; not in the network's group database. (I say this because the grep -i a would show all occurrences of ad3059 in the network's group database.)

So, it appears that user ad3059 is not in the network's group database and only appears in the system's local files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group) where there is no group A and there is no group B.

It has been a couple of decades since I worked on a Solaris 8 system, and I don't remember how it determined who would be found in local user and group databases and who would be found in network user and group databases. I also seem to remember limits on the length's of lines in the user and group databases (both local and networked) which is probably why you have group A and B in the remote group database with the same group ID. Maybe you can't add any more users to those groups because you have reached that limit. But, I am surprised that you didn't get any error messages from usermod if that was the reason for failing to add ad3059 to those remote groups.

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groupdel

groupdel(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       groupdel(8)

NAME

       groupdel - Deletes a group definition from the system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/groupdel [-P] [-x extended_option] group_name

OPTIONS

       Creates	a  PC  group only.  The following extended_option attributes are available: Indicates whether or not the group is distributed. The
       value of the distributed=n attribute can be 0 or 1. If set to 0, the group is deleted from the local system. If set  to	1,  the  group	is
       deleted	from  the  NIS	master	database  on  the  running  system.  Indicates whether or not the group is local. The value of the local=n
       attribute can be 0 or 1. If set to 1, the group is deleted from the local database. If set to 0, the group is deleted from the  NIS  master
       database.  Specifies the name of the group to be deleted from the system.  The groupname must exist.

DESCRIPTION

       The groupdel command lets the system administrator delete existing groups from the system, by group name.  In addition, the system adminis-
       trator can use the -x option to specify whether the group to be deleted is local or whether the group resides in the NIS  master  database.
       If the -x option is not specified, the group is deleted from the appropriate database as specified by the system defaults.

       The  default behavior on the system for the groupdel command is distributed=0 and local=1.  With these values, the system deletes the group
       from the local database by default. Setting the distributed= and local= attributes to  the  same  value	(for  example,	distributed=0  and
       local=0) produces an error.

       When  the  Advanced  Server  for  UNIX  (ASU) is running, you can also delete PC groups consisting of members who are holders of Windows NT
       domain accounts.

       You must have superuser privilege to execute this command.

EXIT STATUS

       The groupmod command exits with one of the following values: Success.  Failure.	Warning.

EXAMPLES

       The following example removes the group, testgrp: % groupdel testgrp The following example removes the group, testgrp, from the local group
       database:  %  groupdel  -x  local=1  testgrp The following example removes the PC users group, domainbdev, from the local group database: %
       groupdel -P domainbdev

FILES

       The groupdel command operates on the appropriate files for the specific level of system security.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  groupadd(8), groupmod(8), useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8)

       System Administration

       Security

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