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and subject line Re: Bug#527867: cpio: broken option --owner (-R)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: cpio
Version: 2.9-13
Severity: normal
Using cpio as root to assign new ownership to files fails with "invalid user"
error message. This is repeatable with either "-R ..." or "--owner=...", and
with any of "user", "user:group", "user:", ":group" syntax. Example:
# cd /tmp
# touch x
# echo x | cpio -dump --owner=tew /var/tmp
cpio: tew: invalid user
-su: echo: write error: Broken pipe
# echo x | cpio -dump /var/tmp; chown tew /var/tmp/x
0 blocks
#
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.2-hobbes (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cpio depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
cpio recommends no packages.
cpio suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.9.90-2
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:56:39PM -0500, Tim Walberg wrote:
> Using cpio as root to assign new ownership to files fails with "invalid user"
> error message. This is repeatable with either "-R ..." or "--owner=...", and
> with any of "user", "user:group", "user:", ":group" syntax. Example:
>
> # cd /tmp
> # touch x
> # echo x | cpio -dump --owner=tew /var/tmp
> cpio: tew: invalid user
> -su: echo: write error: Broken pipe
> # echo x | cpio -dump /var/tmp; chown tew /var/tmp/x
> 0 blocks
> #
This is fixed in 2.9.90-3 in testing and unstable (unless tew is actually
an invalid user).
--- End Message ---
