Problem adding user via SAM

[TheKidd]

When adding a new user I get the following message:

Failed to add the user "username" to the group "groupname". Could not modify the /etc/group file. The user was added to the system.

The user is added to the system and is placed in the correct group, but I don't know why I'm getting this error message.

Server=rp7410
OS=HP-UX 11.11

Thanks for the help.

 

[bi]

who owns /etc/group and what are the permissions on the file and on /etc?

 

[TheKidd]

etc is set to 555 and /etc/group is set to 444

 

[TheKidd]

One thing I've notice is that I only get this message when I try to add a new user to one particular group. When I create a new user and add that person to a different group, everything works fine. Is there a maximum number of users allowed in a group? Thanks.

 

[TheKidd]

This problem has been solved. It seems that the one group affected had more then eight characters in its name, which caused us problems. HP had me install patch PHCO_28007 and the problem went away. Thanks to all for the responses.

 

[bi]

Thanks for posting the solution!