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From: | Bob Proulx |
Subject: | bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID |
Date: | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:01:44 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Eric Blake writes: > > so it looks like we have a bug that if OWNER is numeric, we aren't > > looking up OWNER's login group. > > There may not be a unique uid to user name mapping. I think that anyone using this would expect it would take the first one returned. The same that happens right now in a "normal" system. The same name that 'ls -l' would return. We don't worry that 'ls -l' might be mapping a name that might not be unique and shouldn't here either. I realize that 'nscd' breaks that long standing assumption that order matters by returning one randomly. I consider that a bug in nscd. Bob
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