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Fletch

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From: Ukraine

Registered: 2007-09-03

Posts: 14

Troubles with groups

Something went wrong after trying to setup ejabberd by this topic http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=7542
Just can't add new user:

[root@getaway fletch]# adduser ejabberd
[skip]
Initial group [ users ]: 100
[skip]
Creating new account...

useradd: группа 100 не существует
useradd: настройка GROUP= в /etc/default/useradd будет проигнорирована
useradd: группа 100 не существует
- Error running useradd command -- account not created!
(cmd: /usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/ejabberd -m   -g 100  -s /bin/bash ejabberd)

umm it's in russian. useradd says that group 100 doesn't exist and GROUP settings in /etc/default/useradd will be ignored
but at the same time it's possible to add new groups:

[root@getaway fletch]# groupadd test
[root@getaway fletch]# cat /etc/group
users::100:fletch
[skip]
jabber:x:102:
test:x:103:

and right after that it refuses to delete groups:

[root@getaway fletch]# groupdel test
groupdel: группа test не существует

groupdel says: group test doesn't exist.
And no groups is available in the change owner/group menu in mc:

What went wrong and how to fix it?