I gave that a try and got the same error. It doesn't seem to matter what I try to name the group :( On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:16 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* David H. Williams [07-10-07 20:51]:

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I run the command: $ newgrp projectx

I get the error:

newgrp: bad group 'projectx'

any ideas?

You were running as <user>? Try as root...

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That worked!! thanks On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 01:59 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 02:52:11 David H. Williams wrote:

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I run the command: $ newgrp projectx

I get the error:

newgrp: bad group 'projectx'

any ideas?

Does group 'projectx' actually exist? I get that error message when I mistype a group name

If you're trying to create new groups, use either YaST or the groupadd command

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