Re: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Do you know if they still do that?

Just checked and yes they do.

Also it was mentioned on a local list that
mobile phone companies all over the world
that use Linux as a messaging platform,
use the mobile number as the username.

> 
> If numeric user names are still common enough, a compromise would be
> to add a configure-time option to enable one behavior or the other,
> and new options:
> 
>   --lookup-numeric
>   --no-lookup-numeric
> 
> Or maybe -- easiest of all -- just don't change anything :-)

I wouldn't change it.

Pádraig.