Jim Meyering wrote: > In <http://bugs.debian.org/393283>, Helge Hafting objected to the fact > that GNU chown performs a DB look-up for a numeric "user name", e.g., in > "chown 0 FILE". chown does this deliberately, in case "0" is an actual > user *name*, that is associated potentially, with some numeric user ID. > That is the historical behavior, and it is required for POSIX conformance. > > Yes, that does sound silly, if not downright wrong. Who actually uses > numeric user or group names these days? Of the systems that still allow > such names, how many actually require or even use that capability?
I can see this as being quite common. Consider a university server. In my uni all our accounts were 8 digit numbers. Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
