This bug had a serious impact on chown: `chown N:M FILE' (for integer

N and M) would have treated it like `chown N:N FILE'.
(parse_user_spec): Fix typo: s/u/g/.

diff --git a/lib/userspec.c b/lib/userspec.c
index 3b69d7395a293f764e41825200e79284071901ff..3e67b1b56305b8269a4c87074680ab3c7be8e358 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/userspec.c
+++ b/lib/userspec.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ parse_user_spec (const char *spec_arg, uid_t *uid, gid_t *gid,
          else
            {
              unsigned long int tmp_long;
-             if (xstrtoul (u, NULL, 0, &tmp_long, NULL) != LONGINT_OK
+             if (xstrtoul (g, NULL, 0, &tmp_long, NULL) != LONGINT_OK
                  || tmp_long > MAXGID)
                return _(E_invalid_group);
              *gid = tmp_long;