Make groupadd avoid LDAP

[dougsticky]

So, this is annoying.

I'm installing Oracle, which requires a group called 'dba'. It looks like a group called dba already exists in LDAP, and the man page for groupadd says:

"If the groupname already exists in an external group database such as NIS, groupadd will deny the group creation request."

so.. attempts at adding the group locally (which is what I want) fail. Strangely even though the useradd man page says the same thing, it lets me add users locally. Weird.

How can I get groupadd to add a local group when the group already exists in LDAP?

My nsswitch.conf has:
passwd: files ldap
shadow: files ldap
group: files ldap
sudoers: files ldap

Doug

[coopstah13]

disconnect from LDAP, then add the group might work