[arch-general] Messed up {g,u}id for uuidd

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

Hello,

I had the brilliant idea couple of weeks ago to merge the /etc/{shadow,group,passwd} . I know now that I shouldn't be merging those and ignore the pacnew files. Now i'd like to fix these. The status report from systemd is:
~# systemctl status -l shadow
  shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-08-20 08:17:19 BST; 5min ago
  Process: 613 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pwck -r (code=exited, status=2)
 Main PID: 613 (code=exited, status=2)

Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat pwck[613]: user 'uuidd': no group 68
Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat pwck[613]: pwck: no changes
Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: shadow.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: Failed to start Verify integrity of password and group files.
Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: Unit shadow.service entered failed state.

Further info
~# cat /etc/shadow | grep uuidd
uuidd:x:14871::::::
~# cat /etc/group | grep uuidd
uuidd:x:997:
~# cat /etc/passwd | grep uuidd
uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin
~# /usr/bin/pwck -r
user 'uuidd': no group 68
pwck: no changes

What should I be changing to fix this? If I change the gid from 997 to 68 would this fix it? Would it be other implications?

Thanks for the input

Leonidas
                                                                                                                                                                                                             
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