On Sat, April 21, 2007 2:42 pm, dnk wrote: > I am not sure if anyone else has run into this, but i did today when > setting upo a samba server. > > http://lists.gobolinux.org/pipermail/gobolinux-users/2007-February/004413.html > > In an nutshell you get an error like: "usermod: invalid numeric > argument", or the user groups are never assigned, etc. So I have been > managing manually. I get the exact same symptoms, etc (but doing > things like appending groups, etc). > > Apparently it can be fixed by downgrading Shadow package to 4.0.17, > however with a quick little "rpm -qa | grep shadow", I can see the > version with Centos 5 is shadow-utils-4.0.17-12.el5. > > I have not spent much time digging in deeper as of yet, but wanted ot > see if any others have had this issue in Centos 5. > Is the command you are typing identical to the command in that link except for the group name? usermod -a groupname -G groupname username If it is it looks like the error may be with including the groupname after the -a. I believe the command should just be : usermod -a -G groupname username Cheers! -- Matt Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz at gflug.net