Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I want to add some users to a group on an AIX 5.3 machine.

I can see these users by command id, lsuser, or smitty, but when I try to add the users to a group using chgrpmem, I got the error:

chgrpmem -m + user1 group1
3004-687 User "user1" does not exist.

I noticed one specialty about the user is that its REGISTRY attribute is DCE, and I cannot find the user in /etc/passwd. I am not sure if this causes the problem.

I would like to know how to fix the problem, or how to troubleshoot this kind of problems.

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Well

if this user is new, you can try firt set its password.

1. passwd user1

This will include the user to /etc/passwd, and then you can try again.

So. chprgmeme depend of some files:

/usr/bin/chgrpmem Specifies the path to the chgrpmem command.
/etc/passwd Contains the basic attributes of users.
/etc/group Contains the basic attributes of groups.
/etc/security/group Contains the extended attributes of groups.
I hope that this help you.
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