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chown: accept "[NUMERIC-ID]:" syntax

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Tormen <quickhelp <at> gmail.com>, 15945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login
 group with numerical user ID
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:47:12 -0700

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On 11/21/2013 10:45 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> 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.

Right, but in that case, the error message should make sense.  Rather
than being a blanket "invalid spec: `1001:'" it should say something
like "unable to determine default group for user `1001'"

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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