Re: Bug#393283: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names

[Pádraig Brady]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael Stone <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> 
>>I guess it's a case of "numeric usernames are stupid" vs "will it break
>>something". I don't see much reason *not* to be posix compliant in this
>>case, though.
> 
> 
> Perhaps there should just be an option to force the numeric name to be
> interpreted as a number.

Yes I agree with this solution.
But the problem is a startup config error as far as I can see.
No point in adding an option to work around this.
What chown does at present is correct IMHO.

Pádraig.