Re: [Acl-devel] Man page patch for setfacl

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 01/21/2018 12:29 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 01 Sep 2017 17:00, Kenneth Dsouza wrote:
>> Currently, the setfacl utility cannot handle ACL on numeric username and
>> groupname. Which causes the ACL to be applied to a uid instead of the 
>> username
>> intended to.
>>
>> ...
>>
> 
> shouldn't we fix the behavior instead of documenting it ?
> 
> does this patch fix things for you ?
> -mike
> 

If might be useful to give people a way to disambiguate. After the
patch, is there a way to use setfacl on a uid that is also someone
else's username?

Prior art:

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Disambiguating-names-and-IDs.html