One or more groups were not found: "admins"

xypron · November 7, 2025, 12:32pm

I am following the online instructions provided by the LXD GUI for the trust token.

It asks me to run

lxc auth identity create tls/lxd-ui --group admins

The result is

$ lxc auth identity create tls/lxd-ui --group admins
Error: Failed to create pending TLS identity: One or more groups were not found: "admins"

The instruction to create the group are missing on the webserver start page.

Please, add the missing information to the GUI.

I am using:
LXD 5.21.4-7b6bd68
LXC 5.21.4 LTS

One or more groups were not found: “admins”

vosdev · November 9, 2025, 4:18pm

A fix has already been merged but is not yet available in your version.
Instructions can be found here:

github.com/canonical/lxd-ui

One or more groups were not found: "admins"

opened 06:14PM - 30 Jul 25 UTC

closed 06:27PM - 05 Sep 25 UTC

WizardBit

I'm unsure if this is an issue with lxd or lxd-ui here. There was a recent LXD r…efresh which caused the LXD UI to update. ``` Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes lxd 6.4-1c216d4 34285 6/stable canonical✓ - ``` When using the same browser certificate I previously had I encounter the behavior described below. > Client certificate already present > It looks like you you already have a client certificate installed and selected, skip to the next step. Continuing to Step 2. > Run the following command on the LXD server to create a new identity and generate a trust token. > `lxc auth identity create tls/lxd-ui --group admins` > You can replace lxd-ui with the name you want to give to the identity. When running this command I get the following. I've gotten this error on two different machines already. ``` lxc auth identity create tls/lxd-ui --group admins Error: Failed to create pending TLS identity: One or more groups were not found: "admins" ``` Fix, create the group and give it server permissions. ``` lxc auth group create admins lxc auth group permission add admins server admin lxc auth identity create tls/lxd-ui --group admins ``` Again, not sure if this is an issue with lxd or if these steps should be mentioned in lxd-ui.

tomp · November 12, 2025, 8:36am

This should be in the LXD 6.6 release.

rizkyana · November 21, 2025, 7:45pm

try run this command

lxc auth user group add tls/lxd-ui admins

i try on my own this is works