2008/9/27 Dan McGee
Guys, we have some big problems with groups.
( 9/31) installing policykit [---------------------] 100% groupadd: GID 102 is not unique useradd: unknown group policykit chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' chown: invalid user: `policykit' chown: invalid user: `policykit:policykit' chown: invalid user: `policykit' chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
Taking a peek at /etc/groups I saw this:
kvm:x:101: tex:x:102:
We really shouldn't be creating groups above 100, should we? Even more of a problem is explicitly specifying 102 in the policykit install script. These are reserved for user use. Your input is definitely welcome on this.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11589 We have user UIDs starting from 1000, but GIDs only from 100. The most correct would be to have user-created GIDs start from 1000 too, but then users that already have created 1xx groups should recreate them and re-chgrp all files/dirs :-/ -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)