Subject: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:45:06 +0100

Eric Blake <[email-masked]> 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.

Andreas.

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