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bug#15945: closed (Re: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and
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Tormen |
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bug#15945: closed (Re: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID) |
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Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:14:44 +0100 |
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Dear GNU team,
But why is not possible for "chown 1001: /tmp/bla"
to resolve 1001 to "me"
and then do the same than "chown me: /tmp/bla" ?
(I guess internally chown will do the reverse lookup (me -> 1001), when
performing a "chown me: /tmp/bla")
Could you please be so kind to explain the "why not" ?
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Wording in "man chown":
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of chown. chown
changes the
user and/or group ownership of each given file. If only an
owner (a
user name or numeric user ID) is given, that user is made the
owner of
each given file, and the files' group is not changed. [1] If the
owner is
followed by a colon and a group name (or numeric group ID),
with no
spaces between them, the group ownership of the files is
changed as
well. [2] If a colon but no group name follows the user name,
that user is
made the owner of the files and the group of the files is
changed to
that user's login group. If the colon and group are given,
but the
owner is omitted, only the group of the files is changed; in this
case,
chown performs the same function as chgrp. If only a colon is
given,
or if the entire operand is empty, neither the owner nor the
group is
changed.
[1] At this point "owner" is referenced as "name or numeric ID".
[2] At this point you do not reprecise "owner" but only state about the
additional colon ":" -- so one must expect "owner" still to be "name or
numeric ID".
Best,
Tormen
On 21/11/13 16:54, GNU bug Tracking System wrote:
> Your bug report
>
> #15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with
> numerical user ID
>
> which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.
>
> The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
> If you require more details, please reply to address@hidden
>
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, (continued)
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Bob Proulx, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Bob Proulx, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Andreas Schwab, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Eric Blake, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Tormen, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Eric Blake, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Tormen, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Bob Proulx, 2013/11/21
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- bug#15945: closed (Re: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID),
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