Getting “adduser” to chose the next available uid *under* 999
This is a redhatism, if you want to use “adduser” but for a system/service/non-regular-user account add the “-rm” flag. “-r” tells it to chose a uid between 100 and 999, and “-m” tells it to make the homedir as if it were a normal user.
adduser -rm foo
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