Topic: Can't create group "users"

[Charlie Nyman]

I'm trying to add the group users but get an error that the group already exits. I see it in the "accounts" file. Is this an e-smith protected group/name? If not, can I do something to add a group called "users"?

[Robert Boerner]

There are several names in use by the e-smith system that cannot be used for user, group, or ibay creation. I initialy submitted this dev-info mailing list, and the documenation was changed, but just having looked at the development PDF and online HTML, the note is no longer there. I ran into the same issue with "public". I would up just having to be more creative :)Charlie Nyman wrote:
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> I'm trying to add the group users but get an error that the
> group already exits. I see it in the "accounts" file. Is this
> an e-smith protected group/name? If not, can I do something
> to add a group called "users"?

[Andrew Roberts]

A simple work around for this kind of thing it to prefix all your groups with "g-".  Thus you could greate a group called "g-users".

Cheers,

Andrew