useradd: Unknown group

[Herta Van den Eynde]

Looks like group pncerts does not exist.  You can create it with a 
command such as this:

# groupadd pncerts

Not sure why it would also want the other groups, though.  What's the 
content of /etc/default/useradd ?

Perhaps you can work past the problem if you first create the group 
using a specific gid:

# groupadd -g 412 pncerts

possibly followed by a useradd using a specific uid:

# useradd -m -d /home/rrao -s /bin/bash -g pncerts -u 412 rrao

(replace 412 by an used gid and uid)

Kind regards,

Herta

unix syzadmin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting the following error for creating a user. Please suggest.
> 
> bngddem3:~ # useradd -m -d /home/rrao -s /bin/bash -g pncerts rrao
> useradd: Unknown group `dialout'.
> useradd: Unknown group `uucp'.
> useradd: Unknown group `video'.
> useradd: Unknown group `audio'.
> useradd: Unknown group `pncerts'.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> -GnanaShekar-

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