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Starting from a fresh instance, I tried to have puppet add a new system user 'pp' using this definition:

 user { "pp":
  name => "pp",
  home => "/opt/pp",
  comment => "pediapress system user",
  shell => "/bin/bash",
  ensure => "present",
  gid => "mwlib",
  allowdupe => false,
  system => true,
  managehome => true,
 }

The outcome was a user with uid 999, which conflicted with an ldap (assumed, not confirmed) user.

  drwxr-xr-x  2 grunny mwlib 4096 2012-03-19 15:52 pp

On Mark's suggestion I switched the manifest to use the systemuser class instead:

 systemuser { "pp": name => "pp", home => "/opt/pp", shell => "/bin/bash" }

This created a non-system user with UID 2191. The standard user range does
not appear to conflict with LDAP so with our broken systemuser class we would not have seen an issue before.

Mark fixed systemuser to system=>true in production, but we need to fix labs
host UID range configuration before importing that fix to the test repo.