Re: Windows domain user in Linux

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 21:06:58 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:32:31 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>>> i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. now i
>>> want to add a windows domain user "administrator" a member of group
>>> "root". however when i run the command it gives me an error.
>>>
>>> #useradd -G root administrator
>>> useradd: user 'administrator' already exists
>>
>> Is the user already in an external database?
>>
>> >From "man adduser":
>>
>> ***
>> CAVEATS
>> You may not add a user to a NIS or LDAP group. This must be performed
>> on the corresponding server.
>>
>> Similarly, if the username already exists in an external user database
>> such as NIS or LDAP, useradd will deny the user account creation
>> request. ***
>>
>> In addition, if the user "administrator" already exists locally, you
>> have to use "usermod" instead.
>>
>> Note: adding a user to the root's group can be dangerous.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the informative email, however administrator is me so thats
> the reason i added that.

Yes, but that's still dangerous. Why do you need to be in root's group?

> Thanks any ways,

You're welcome.

Anyway, a quick note on your first one-liner: by re-reading "man useradd" 
I think you should use "-g" instead "-G".

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón