Well after all this time I finally sat down and figured out what the heck was causing my problem.
Firstly, my issue was only to do with modifying group accounts not user accounts.
The issue was that every time I went to modify an existing group I would be presented with "an error occured while modifying user group". This was really urking me.
Since I wanted to have things just work properly I discovered that the reason for the error was due to a couple of things:
1)the
"/etc/group" file contained no entry for the group even though the group appeared in the list within server manager
2)some of the groups that were listed within the file were missing the leading "admin" and the trailing "www" (example below)
northservice:x:5042:tom,dick,harry,john
Now if I changed it to read (example below)
northservice:x:5042:admin,tom,dick,harry,john,www (It WORKED!!)
Now for the groups that did not show up in the
"/etc/groups" file, I had to remove them through server manager - groups, then go to the command line and do a
"/sbin/e-smith/db accounts delete groupname"then go back to server manager-groups and recreate the group account - add the members and save. Again I would receive the error message but at least the group would show up in /etc/groups where I would just add the
"admin" and the
"www" users. I would then go back to server manager - groups and modify the account and I would then get the success message.
I feel breathless explaining all this but what I would like to know is why is it not adding the admin & www accounts to the group automatically?
If I could solve this then my issue would be just a part of SME history.
Regards,
Ed
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