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

[Eric Blake]

On 11/21/2013 10:45 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> 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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