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Date:      Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:08:33 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   usr.bin/xinstall derefs null pointer
Message-ID:  <199604080408.AAA04024@whizzo.transsys.com>

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FYI,

If you invoke the new and improved install(1) with the
ALLOW_NUMERIC_IDS feature, and don't specify an owner or group, it
dereferences a null pointer.  The calls to resolve_uid() and
resolve_gid() need to be protected.  This seems to have gone in
recently in:

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revision 1.6
date: 1996/04/06 01:50:40;  author: julian;  state: Exp;  lines: +75 -3
Submitted by:   archie@tribe.com

allow the user to install using a Numeric GID or UID.
this brings it in to line with chgrp and chown, ans is required
by some people using FreeBSD in a product.
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louie




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