bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with (original) (raw)

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From: Tormen
Subject: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:50:40 +0100
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Dear Gnu Team,

First off: Thanks for existing!! :)))

I think I just found a bug in chown... \o/ ;)

Details about my GNU/Linux system: Debian wheezy stable 7.2

    dpkg -S /bin/chown
    coreutils: /bin/chown

    dpkg -l|grep coreutils
    ii  coreutils      8.13-3.5    amd64   GNU core utilities

    uname -a
    Linux seven 3.10-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.11-1~bpo70+1

(2013-09-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux

    echo $SHELL
    /bin/zsh

I tried: chown 1001: /tmp/bla

Leading to: chown: invalid spec: `1001:'

But as 1001 == "me", it should have done a: chown me: /tmp/bla (which works just fine).

Is this a bug or a feature ?

... it should be a bug except if there is a technical detail I am missing here.

Best,

Tormen