This tweaks user creation logic to properly take into consideration an explicitly requested GID. It fixes a bug where the creation flow would mistakenly fall back to use the username instead, resulting in wrong lookups in case of users and groups using the same name. (cherry picked from commit 5ed47c4d230b9491339c16c6ea4181dfd293bc98) (cherry picked from commit f9d936b86561c23f5b40211254544b91e33eae7a)
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