On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:41 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> blfsuser wrote these words on 01/15/07 15:32 CST:
> 
Thanks again Randy. I've just had a closer look at /etc/group and it
would appear that when I add user 'username' the system creates a group
'username' with the same gid as the uid. Is this normal behaviour for
useradd? 

So I solved my problem by using 'groupdel mysql' and then using

useradd -c "MySQL Server" -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 40 mysql

which also created a group named mysql with gid 40.

Since this will only be a single user machine its not going to make that
much difference but I'm very curious.

And I've been thinking about this for a few minutes; my solution seems
to be a bit of a bodge job so I might try to install shadow-4.0.15 over
4.0.18.1 and see what happens. If things go wrong I'll start again! 

Gordon


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