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Title: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Ed on August 14, 2003, 08:47:50 PM

Cannot seem to create a new group although I already have several created when I try to create one recently it just brings me to a blank page. If I look at all the groups, I don't see the one that I just tried to create. Any ideas?

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Michiel Blotwijk on August 14, 2003, 09:30:37 PM

How many groups have you already created? There is a defacto limit of 28 groups on a SME server.

Michiel

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Ed on August 14, 2003, 09:43:54 PM

I have 23 groups so far, this would have been the 24th.

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Michael Doerner on August 15, 2003, 12:14:02 AM

Ed,

I discovered exactly the same here on our own server some days ago. This server has been upgraded from SME 5.5 (and older before) and there was no problem with group creation on 5.5.
I suspect the problem to be in the web interface because the group creation through Michiel's command line tool "lat" (Thanks!) actually worked quite well.

Regards,
Michael

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Ed on August 15, 2003, 12:29:28 AM

How do you do it from the command line? Is there any actual fix available? Thanks

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Michiel Blotwijk on August 15, 2003, 01:11:13 AM

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/mblotwijk/HowToGuides/lazy-admin-tools.htm

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Rance on August 15, 2003, 06:34:42 AM

This site is either down or does not exist

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Brad Jennings on August 15, 2003, 09:52:51 AM

No....that link is ok.  Try again


http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/mblotwijk/HowToGuides/lazy-admin-tools.htm

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Ed on August 15, 2003, 07:40:15 PM

Thanks ... that tool works great. Can I exceed the 28 group limit by using this tool? again thanks ...

Title: Re: SME 5.6 group creation
Post by: Michiel Blotwijk on August 16, 2003, 07:25:57 PM

The 28-groups limit is caused by the fact that SME adds users 'admin' and 'www' to each group it creates. If you use the --no-admin switch with lat-groups, the group will be created without those users, effectively allowing you to create more than 28 groups.

Please note, however, that SME is very persistent with this 'feature'. Each time you use the server-manager to modify a group, 'admin' and 'www' will be added to all groups again. So if you add more than 28 groups to your server, you better no longer use the 'groups' option in the server-manager.

Use it at your own risk! I've warned you...

Michiel