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: ---------------------------- 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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