[Roberto C. Sanchez] > That is a problem if I want to server everything up out of LDAP. > There really should be a "reserved" range, maybe 100-499 of Debian > gids, where they are assigned in a predertmined way. I don't think it's a good idea to put system users and groups into LDAP anyway. They are specific to a system. There is nothing wrong with having regular users and groups in LDAP and system users and groups in /etc/passwd. This is, in fact, probably the common case.
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