On 12/22/2017 09:23 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Temlakos <temlakos@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/22/2017 09:10 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Temlakos <temlakos@gmail.com> wrote:
Running transaction
   Preparing        :                                                                                                                                                                                                                     1/1
  Running scriptlet: cockpit-ws-158-1.fc27.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                        1/1
groupadd: cannot open /etc/group
useradd: group 'cockpit-ws' does not exist

Check your permissions on /etc/group... It should definitely exist...

Richard 

Permissions are 644. To what should I set them instead?

That's correct... Have you examined the contents? Or just try running dnf again... It shouldn't matter but are you running dnf as root or using sudo?

Richard 

Ran dnf as sudo. But I tried using "su" and it still ran into the same error--being unable to open the "group" file.

Should I edit that file myself to add the group the scriptlet wants?

Temlakos