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bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with
From: |
Erik Auerswald |
Subject: |
bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:10:54 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:53:47AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 04:50 AM, Tormen wrote:
> >
> > I think I just found a bug in chown... \o/ ;)
> >
> > I tried:
> > chown 1001: /tmp/bla
> >
> > Leading to:
> > chown: invalid spec: `1001:'
>
> Drop the trailing colon.
>
> > ... it should be a bug except if there is a technical detail I am
> > missing here.
>
> If you provide a colon, you MUST also provide a group spec. Per 'chown
> --help', the syntax is:
> chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
> so these are valid:
> chown 1001 /tmp/bla # change owner only
> chown :1001 /tmp/bla # change group only
> chown 1001:1001 /tmp/bla # change both
> but this is invalid:
> chown 1001: /tmp/bla # '' is not a valid group
Should this be changed to 'chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:GROUP] FILE...'
then?
Erik