Submit #3275: [PATCH] pw_scan: remove checks for (u|g)ids > USHRT_MAX. - DragonFlyBSD - DragonFlyBSD bugtracker

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[PATCH] pw_scan: remove checks for (u|g)ids > USHRT_MAX.

Added by dancrossnyc almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

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Category:

Userland

Target version:

6.2

Start date:

05/21/2021

Due date:

% Done:

Estimated time:

Description

Remove the check and simplify the logic for checking
UID/GID validity in `pw_scan()` by calling `strtonum`
instead of `strtoul`.

I ran into this because I use a non-default UID/GID
numbering scheme where both are typically greater
than 2^16 for normal users. The width of UIDs has
been 32 bits since before 4.4BSD in 1994, almost 27
years ago; if larger UIDs were going to show up as
a problem it would have already happened.

Files

0001-pw_scan-remove-checks-for-u-g-ids-USHRT_MAX.patch (5.12 KB) 0001-pw_scan-remove-checks-for-u-g-ids-USHRT_MAX.patch

dancrossnyc, 05/21/2021 08:23 AM