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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/userspec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/userspec.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/userspec.c b/lib/userspec.c index fbdc2f9a1..fd2c941f8 100644 --- a/lib/userspec.c +++ b/lib/userspec.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* userspec.c -- Parse a user and group string. - Copyright (C) 1989-1992, 1997-1998, 2000, 2002-2005 Free Software + Copyright (C) 1989-1992, 1997-1998, 2000, 2002-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ parse_with_separator (char const *spec, char const *separator, { static const char *E_invalid_user = N_("invalid user"); static const char *E_invalid_group = N_("invalid group"); - static const char *E_bad_spec = - N_("cannot get the login group of a numeric UID"); + static const char *E_bad_spec = N_("invalid spec"); const char *error_msg; struct passwd *pwd; @@ -164,7 +163,11 @@ parse_with_separator (char const *spec, char const *separator, { bool use_login_group = (separator != NULL && g == NULL); if (use_login_group) - error_msg = E_bad_spec; + { + /* If there is no group, + then there may not be a trailing ":", either. */ + error_msg = E_bad_spec; + } else { unsigned long int tmp; |