[chef] user id conflicts with user cookbook

[John Alberts < >]

i've been using the users cookbook for a while, and I've noticed an issue that I wonder if anyone else has a solution to.  When I add a new user to the databag and run chef-client on a server that has been around for a while and had some users manually added to it, I get a uid and gid conflict.  Obviously the real problem here is that we are still manually adding users occasionally, but unfortunately that's unavoidable for now.

I thought about removing the uid and gid attributes from the recipe so it just creates the user with the next available uid and gid, but I thought I would ask on the mailing list before doing that to see what other's have done to avoid this.

Thanks

John