diff -up shadow-4.2.1/src/useradd.c.defs-chroot shadow-4.2.1/src/useradd.c
--- shadow-4.2.1/src/useradd.c.defs-chroot	2014-12-01 15:14:58.000000000 +0100
+++ shadow-4.2.1/src/useradd.c	2015-08-27 15:46:21.935698862 +0200
@@ -1938,8 +1938,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 #endif				/* ACCT_TOOLS_SETUID */
 
 	/* Needed for userns check */
-	uid_t uid_min = (uid_t) getdef_ulong ("UID_MIN", 1000UL);
-	uid_t uid_max = (uid_t) getdef_ulong ("UID_MAX", 60000UL);
+	uid_t uid_min;
+	uid_t uid_max;
 
 	/*
 	 * Get my name so that I can use it to report errors.
@@ -1957,6 +1957,9 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	audit_help_open ();
 #endif
 
+	uid_min = (uid_t) getdef_ulong ("UID_MIN", 1000UL);
+	uid_max = (uid_t) getdef_ulong ("UID_MAX", 60000UL);
+
 	sys_ngroups = sysconf (_SC_NGROUPS_MAX);
 	user_groups = (char **) xmalloc ((1 + sys_ngroups) * sizeof (char *));
 	/*