On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:45:19 -0500 > Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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)? >> > > You'd get back uid=5001: > > The getpwnam() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the > broken-out fields of the record in the password database (e.g., the > local password file /etc/passwd, NIS, and LDAP) that matches the user‐ > name name. > > If you wanted to get back a struct passwd for uid=0 then you'd need to > use getpwuid() there. > > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> I missed that; thanks for clarifying. -- 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
