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Old 09-09-2011
groupadd not unique

I want to add several users and several groups to a HPUX 11.31 box.

When I type groupadd -g GID <name>, I'm told GID is not unique....even though it doesn't exist in the /etc/group file.

I read in the man pages about NIS but I don't think we are using NIS....well we are using LDAP, but can I still add these groups locally that may not be unique?
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Old 09-12-2011
Yes but then you will have to accept the side effects... So the best would be to use an available GID and avoid possible issues...
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