Re: dba group already exists in linux

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 13:42 -0700, Jared Still wrote:
>
> We are setting up a new linux box for Oracle, the following message
> appears when trying to create the dba group:
>
> [root]# groupadd -g 300 dba
> groupadd: group dba exists
>
> I've seen this before, but have no idea how this group was created.
>
> Typically I create dba with an id of 500, but this default group is
> usually
> some other ID IIRC.
>
> To answer some likely questions:
>
> * no, oracle has never been installed on this box
> * dba does not appear in /etc/group
>
> This is RH Linux EL4, kernel 2.6.9
>
> Thanks,

Maybe it's in shadow, a group removed improperly.

Try grpck, and for good measure pwck.

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