[CentOS] groupadd failure

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:58:30AM -0400, mark wrote:
> 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>

We have 8 and 9 digit UIDs now, however some software still chokes on
such long UIDs.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>