Am 03.09.2015 um 10:33 schrieb isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com>: > On 02/09/2015, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote: >> Sorry, I didn't read what you said carefully enough -- it's trying to >> create a system group. Still, looking inside of /etc/group to see what >> system groups already exist is probably a good idea. > > This is not exactly trivial to figure when there's no documentation > what the system group limits actually are. There's a very indirect > mention in the same man page, "Values between 0 and 999 are typically > reserved for system accounts.", but I bet that's just the usual case > of generic documentation not tailored to the distribution. > > The highest id in the group file is 499. Combined with the error, this > could be consistent with a SYS_GID_MAX of 499. But no ids between 189 > and 485 have been assigned at all. Is groupadd really this limited? there exist a distinction between normal and system accounts/groups. For example: everything under 499 are system accounts (e.g. daemons) and 500 is your first user account ... -- LF