[Freeipa-users] How to delete a managed group

[Petr Spacek]

On 3.8.2016 00:58, Bob Hinton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Something went wrong when trying to restore some preserved users so I
> deleted them and then tried to recreate them. This failed with -
> 
> ipa: ERROR: Unable to create private group. A group 'XXXXX'  already exists.
> 
> Trying to delete this group produces -
> 
> ipa: ERROR: Unable to create private group. A group 'XXXXX' already exists.
> 
> Trying to detach it with
> 
> ipa group-detach XXXXX
> 
> produces
> 
> ipa: ERROR: XXXXX: group not found
> 
> ipa group-show XXXXX

I would try
$ ipa group show XXXXX --all --raw

that could show us if there is something interesting like replication conflict
or so.

Petr^2 Spacek

> 
> displays the group, but "ipa group-find XXXXX" doesn't
> 
> How can get rid of the group so I can recreate the user ?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Bob