Re: dba group already exists in linux

Yeah, watch out for SAs fat fingers. One innocent change in nsswitch.conf
from
group:     files ldap
to
group:     ldap files
and consequences could be very unpleasant if group id in files and ldap for
dba do not match. I've been through this. It took me a while to figure out
8-)

--romas

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>>
>>
> The fix was deceptively simple:
>
> Do it the old fashioned way by editing /etc/group.
>
>   [root@ordb03 etc]# touch x; chgrp dba x; ls -l x; ls -lsn x
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root dba 0 Sep 30 15:42 x
>   0 -rw-r--r--  1 0 300 0 Sep 30 15:42 x
>
> (dba was set to 300 in /etc/group)
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> Next time I forget how to do this, it will be documented in Oracle-L
> archives.  :)
>
> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
>

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