id: print groups of listed name

Problem reported by Vladimir D. Seleznev (Bug#53631).
* src/id.c (main): Do not canonicalize user name before
deciding what groups the user belongs to.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a4ba0fce6abf2950c40df109b23ce507a2ea126d..fcf31fe39d8e5bf928182b7061ce31e0ffc672ce 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   and B is in some other file system.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
 
+  'id xyz' now uses the name 'xyz' to determine groups, instead of xyz's uid.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
+
   On macOS, 'mv A B' no longer fails with "Operation not supported"
   when A and B are in the same tmpfs file system.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]

diff --git a/src/id.c b/src/id.c
index 2d969cc1e71d0438b29c93547d9739327d2cbd86..f7625b6fba6345cc805cf9e1747ad4ab05af84f7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/id.c
+++ b/src/id.c
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   int optc;
   int selinux_enabled = (is_selinux_enabled () > 0);
   bool smack_enabled = is_smack_enabled ();
-  char *pw_name = NULL;
 
   initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
   set_program_name (argv[0]);
@@ -235,6 +234,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       /* For each username/userid to get its pw_name field */
       for (; optind < n_ids; optind++)
         {
+          char *pw_name = NULL;
           struct passwd *pwd = NULL;
           char const *spec = argv[optind];
           /* Disallow an empty spec here as parse_user_spec() doesn't
@@ -242,24 +242,22 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
              specify a noop or "reset special bits" depending on the system.  */
           if (*spec)
             {
-              if (parse_user_spec (spec, &euid, NULL, NULL, NULL) == NULL)
-                {
-                  /* parse_user_spec will only extract a numeric spec,
-                     so we lookup that here to verify and also retrieve
-                     the PW_NAME used subsequently in group lookup.  */
-                  pwd = getpwuid (euid);
-                }
+              if (parse_user_spec (spec, &euid, NULL, &pw_name, NULL) == NULL)
+                pwd = pw_name ? getpwnam (pw_name) : getpwuid (euid);
             }
           if (pwd == NULL)
             {
-              error (0, errno, _("%s: no such user"), quote (argv[optind]));
+              error (0, errno, _("%s: no such user"), quote (spec));
               ok &= false;
-              continue;
             }
-          pw_name = xstrdup (pwd->pw_name);
-          ruid = euid = pwd->pw_uid;
-          rgid = egid = pwd->pw_gid;
-          print_stuff (pw_name);
+          else
+            {
+              if (!pw_name)
+                pw_name = xstrdup (pwd->pw_name);
+              ruid = euid = pwd->pw_uid;
+              rgid = egid = pwd->pw_gid;
+              print_stuff (pw_name);
+            }
           free (pw_name);
         }
     }
@@ -301,7 +299,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
           if (rgid == NO_GID && errno)
             die (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot get real GID"));
         }
-        print_stuff (pw_name);
+        print_stuff (NULL);
     }
 
   return ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
@@ -434,7 +432,7 @@ print_stuff (char const *pw_name)
   if (just_user)
       print_user (use_real ? ruid : euid);
 
-  /* print_group and print_group_lists functions return true on successful
+  /* print_group and print_group_list return true on successful
      execution but false if something goes wrong. We then AND this value with
      the current value of 'ok' because we want to know if one of the previous
      users faced a problem in these functions. This value of 'ok' is later used