On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sergio Conrad reported a problem trying to set up an autofs map to do > a krb5 mount. In his environment, many users have usernames that are > comprised entirely of numbers. While that's a bit odd, POSIX apparently > allows for it. > > The current code assumes that when a numeric argument is passed to one > of the above options, that it's a uid or gid. Instead, try to treat the > argument as a user or group name first, and only try to treat it as a > number if that fails. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> Yuck. What happens when a number is both a valid user name and uid? IE, I add a user named "0" (uid=5001). Does getpwnam() return root (uid=0) or 0 (uid=5001)? -- Peace and Blessings, -Scott. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
