On 09/03/15 04:33, isdtor wrote: > 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. GIDs < 1000 have been std in all Unices for a long, long time. For an ordinary user, going above shouldn't be a problem. <chuckles> At work, a couple of years ago, we went to 7-digit user & gids. <snip> mark