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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:05:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usr.bin/xinstall derefs null pointer
Message-ID:  <199604080805.BAA20399@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604080408.AAA04024@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Apr 8, 96 00:08:33 am

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 fix is on the way..

> 
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> ----------------------------
> 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.
> ----------------------------
> 
> louie
> 
> 




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