Sorry, fail in man, its a parameter to useradd
which selects other defaut uid and other settings.
corrected in man page ...with the newes commit


2013/12/18 Nico Schottelius <notifications@github.com>

> In cdist/conf/type/__user/man.text:
>
> >  uid::
> > -   see above
> > +    see above
> > +system::
> > +    see above
>
> My usermod does not have --system :-( not sure, which systems actually
> support this ...
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