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

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Issue #3275 has been updated by dancrossnyc.


A gentle ping on this? I should note that FreeBSD effectively disabled this check in 2009: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/lib/libc/gen/pw_scan.c?id=764eca2591d4b1b0fdb45e4e839b1163bf76219f

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Submit #3275: [PATCH] pw_scan: remove checks for (u|g)ids > USHRT_MAX.
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/3275#change-14101

* Author: dancrossnyc
* Status: New
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: Userland
* Target version: master
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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.

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


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