samba - Mar 2009 - Error trying to create LOCAL groups & Users

We are running Samba 3.033 / Winbind on RHEL5 x64 that authenticates to our AD
domain. We need to create a few LOCAL service accounts and groups (for Oracle)
however when we try to add the user & group accounts, we get the error:
groupadd: group dba exists. This is because we have a domain account with the
same name, but we do not want to use the domain group, we want a new local only
group.

Is there a way we can add the local user & group accounts without it looking
the account up in AD first?

Thanks!
Mike Hurst
UNIX Administrator

Dear Mike

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf file, this file is reponsible for local system
authentication, nsswitch.conf should look like following, but remember to
store original nsswitch.conf file before editing.


passwd : files
shadow: files
group: files

After creating users restore original nsswitch.conf file

thanks


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Mike Hurst
<mhurst@creditacceptance.com>wrote:
> We are running Samba 3.033 / Winbind on RHEL5 x64 that authenticates to our
> AD domain. We need to create a few LOCAL service accounts and groups (for
> Oracle) however when we try to add the user & group accounts, we get
the
> error: groupadd: group dba exists. This is because we have a domain account
> with the same name, but we do not want to use the domain group, we want a
> new local only group.
>
> Is there a way we can add the local user & group accounts without it
> looking the account up in AD first?
>
> Thanks!
> Mike Hurst
> UNIX Administrator
>
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