Hello, Stephen Lyons, le lun. 09 mars 2026 13:17:53 +0000, a ecrit: > Pardon me if I'm butting in and seem impertinent but I was wondering whether > Devuan was encountering any similar problems and I found this thread on > their forum https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7600 - where > the opensysusers' systemd-sysusers utility was ignoring local configuration > ranges for UIDs and GIDs and instead using compiled in values. It seems to > me that the failure to create the group referred to in the Debian bug report > could have arisen because of a clash with between what it wanted to do and > previously allocated values.
No. Please really really read the bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1128803 > Now it seems that Devuan could or is switching > away from that package to a more POSIX-ish shell script using > adduser/addgroup. Perhaps the Hurd might look to do the same? Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't have enough maintainers to fork such a basic part of the distribution. Samuel
