GPL Virtualmin is not creating user groups on setting up a new virtual server/domain

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i tried every possible way, but when i want to setup a new domain and a virtual server for it, Virtualmin gives me an errors saying, it cant create the group for the “Group for mailbox users”. it doesnt matter, if i enter the information by hand or let Virtualmin create it automatically.
the funnny thing is, it will say it can’t create the group, but the group is created!

i am using the latest version of Webmin and Usermin on SuSE 9.3, PHP 5, mySQL 4.1.x and of course latest version of Virtualmin.
Hope somebody will have an answer or a fix for this, since it really doesnt make sense to first create a virtual server by hand and then import it to Virtualmin, which i had to do now several times.
Other than that Virtualmin is running smooth and it is a great help to administrate web servers.

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no idea anybody?

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Hi , I am running Fedora Core #4 and am not getting your problem. Apart from that I am a complete newby myself and you will find several posting of mine one the site.

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See the response to bugtracker #172 in the closed section.

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D’UH

didnt look at the bug tracker section!!!

thanks for the info. never thought nscd would cause this problem at all!

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I’ve added a FAQ for this question, as it has come up a couple of times:

http://www.virtualmin.com/faq/one-faq?faq_id=1511#19404

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cool.
i am pretty sure other SuSE users might have the same problem.
really, never thought of nscd to be the cause this "bug".

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Hi,

I am getting the same error

  • Creating home directory … *
  • … done *
  •                                      *
  • Creating Unix group exampledomain … *
  • Failed to create Unix group! *

I turned off nscd from Webmin Bootup and Shutdown on bootup and also terminated the process, I checked using the Running Processes module and the process is no longer there.

I also shutdown the process from command line using nscd --shutdown.

I still get the same error!

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Gaurav Misra

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I am using Webmin 1.260 and VirtualMin 2.610 on OpenSuse 10.0.0

P.S. I was able to create Virtual Servers on Webmin 1.250

Gaurav Misra

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It only happens when I try to store users and groups in an LDAP database.

I’ve checked my LDAP settings, I can add Users and Groups throught the LDAP Users and Groups Moudle and also from Other computers on the network using various Java and Windows Clients.

Also when I check the LDAP Users and Groups Module it shows the group that Virtualmin thinks it failed to create.

Is there a nscd equivalent service for LDAP too ;)?

Thank you,

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It only happens when I try to store users and groups in an LDAP database.

I’ve checked my LDAP settings, I can add Users and Groups throught the LDAP Users and Groups Moudle and also from Other computers on the network using various Java and Windows Clients.

Also when I check the LDAP Users and Groups Module it shows the group that Virtualmin thinks it failed to create.

Is there a nscd equivalent service for LDAP too ;)?

Thank you,

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Webmin’s LDAP Users and Groups correctly creates Users and or groups.
When I user Virtualmin I get the group creation but the user never gets created.
What objectClass properties are required by virtualmin using Ldap?

Thanks for Your help

tim

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