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Old 06-06-2008
Solaris 9: group have always the same id
Hello,
I have a strange behavior of a Solaris 9 machine. Every time I create a new group it has always the same ID 100 instead of having a different one.

Code:
$ groupadd -g 5000 test
$ groupadd test2
$ groupadd test3
# /etc/group contains then the entires:
test::5000:
test2::100:
test3::100:

Any ideas ?

thanks Tex
# 2  
Old 06-06-2008
You have a corrupted entry in /etc/group. Run grpck to find the errors in /erc/group and fix the errors it finds.
# 3  
Old 06-06-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
You have a corrupted entry in /etc/group. Run grpck to find the errors in /erc/group and fix the errors it finds.
Hi,
well I tried the following:
Code:
$ mv /etc/group /etc/group.bak
$ touch /etc/group
$ grpck /etc/group
$ groupadd test2
$ groupadd test3
$ groupadd test4
$ cat /etc/group
test2::100:
test3::100:
test4::100:


I also ran grpck on the original /etc/group and I have messages like this

Code:
bin::2:root,bin,daemon
        bin - Duplicate logname entry (gid first occurs in passwd entry)

but I dont think this is a problem cos I have the same messages on another server where I dont have this issue. Furthermore, when I had an empty /etc/group, grpck want complaining but the IDs were still the same Smilie

regards,
Tex
# 4  
Old 06-06-2008
I've just found a possible solution in Google for this. It looks like the getent command is missing. The package SUNWnisu is not installed.

tex
# 5  
Old 06-06-2008
Well looking at the source code, groupadd actually invokes an external pipeline:
getent group|cut -f3 -d:|sort -nr|uniq
to find the highest gid. Somehow this pipeline is failing. If the group file is not corrupt, then maybe of of the program in the pipeline is corrupt.
 
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