Dear Mike Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf file, this file is reponsible for local system authentication, nsswitch.conf should look like following, but remember to store original nsswitch.conf file before editing.
passwd : files shadow: files group: files After creating users restore original nsswitch.conf file thanks On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Mike Hurst <mhu...@creditacceptance.com>wrote: > We are running Samba 3.033 / Winbind on RHEL5 x64 that authenticates to our > AD domain. We need to create a few LOCAL service accounts and groups (for > Oracle) however when we try to add the user & group accounts, we get the > error: groupadd: group dba exists. This is because we have a domain account > with the same name, but we do not want to use the domain group, we want a > new local only group. > > Is there a way we can add the local user & group accounts without it > looking the account up in AD first? > > Thanks! > Mike Hurst > UNIX Administrator > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
