Linux auto-generate UID and GID and cause a conflict

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I have an user named "myUser" and it's uid and gid is "170". This number is gid of another user named "avahi-autoipd" at same time. I try seperate this 2 users with usermod and groupmod commands. But there is another problem at this option.

My commands and their outputs like this:

[root@myHost test]# id myUser
 uid=170(myUser) gid=170(avahi-autoipd) groups=170(avahi-autoipd),10(wheel)

[root@myHost ~]# usermod -u 666 myUser
 usermod: warning: /var/spool/mail/myUser not owned by myUser

[root@myHost ~]# groupmod -g 666 myUser
[root@myHost ~]# chown myUser:myUser /home/myUser /var/spool/mail/myUser

[root@myHost ~]# ls -lt /home | grep myUser
 drwx------. 16 myUser       myUser         4096 May 29 09:50 myUser
 drwx------.  3        41155        41155     87 Jan  2  2013 myUser1

[root@myHost ~]# id myUser
 uid=170(myUser) gid=666(myUser) groups=666(myUser),10(wheel)

[root@myHost ~]# id avahi-autoipd
 uid=170(avahi-autoipd) gid=666 groups=666

This state is not permanent. After like 5 minutes UID and GID of myUser and GID of avahi-autoipd changes to 170 again.

[root@myHost test]# id myUser
 uid=170(myUser) gid=170(avahi-autoipd) groups=170(avahi-autoipd),10(wheel)

[root@myHost ~]# id avahi-autoipd
 uid=170(avahi-autoipd) gid=170 groups=170

How can I seperate this 2 users and block generate new UID and GID for them?

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