Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 02:56:38PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > this looks to be in the wrong order. if 1000 is a username, that should be
> > matched first before numeric lookup.
> Preferring UIDs indeed clobbers usernames with the respective numerical
> username.
>
> However, other parts in base such as getent(1) treat UIDs with higher
> priority and behave like that already:
yes, there are inconsistencies, but that just means there's more to fix. :)
i don't have the section handy, but i believe this is specced by posix.
usernames are first priority, then if no match, numeric match is attempted.
chown actually documents this:
The owner may be either a numeric user ID or a user name. If a user name
is also a numeric user ID, the operand is used as a user name. The group
may be either a numeric group ID or a group name. If a group name is
also a numeric group ID, the operand is used as a group name.
