1 /* userspec.c -- Parse a user and group string.
2 Copyright (C) 1989-1992, 1997-1998, 2000, 2002-2024 Free Software
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12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 /* Written by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. */
26 #include <sys/types.h>
31 # include <sys/param.h>
46 #define _(msgid) gettext (msgid)
47 #define N_(msgid) msgid
50 # define endgrent() ((void) 0)
54 # define endpwent() ((void) 0)
58 # define UID_T_MAX TYPE_MAXIMUM (uid_t)
62 # define GID_T_MAX TYPE_MAXIMUM (gid_t)
65 /* MAXUID may come from limits.h or sys/params.h. */
67 # define MAXUID UID_T_MAX
70 # define MAXGID GID_T_MAX
75 /* ISDIGIT differs from isdigit, as follows:
76 - Its arg may be any int or unsigned int; it need not be an unsigned char
78 - It's typically faster.
79 POSIX says that only '0' through '9' are digits. Prefer ISDIGIT to
80 isdigit unless it's important to use the locale's definition
81 of "digit" even when the host does not conform to POSIX. */
82 # define ISDIGIT(c) ((unsigned int) (c) - '0' <= 9)
84 /* Return true if STR represents an unsigned decimal integer. */
87 is_number (const char *str
)
101 parse_with_separator (char const *spec
, char const *separator
,
102 uid_t
*uid
, gid_t
*gid
,
103 char **username
, char **groupname
)
105 const char *error_msg
;
112 gid_t gnum
= gid
? *gid
: -1;
120 /* Set U and G to nonzero length strings corresponding to user and
121 group specifiers or to NULL. If U is not NULL, it is a newly
125 if (separator
== NULL
)
132 idx_t ulen
= separator
- spec
;
135 u
= ximemdup (spec
, ulen
+ 1);
140 g
= (separator
== NULL
|| *(separator
+ 1) == '\0'
145 /* Pretend that we are the user U whose group is G. This makes
146 pwd and grp functions "know" about the UID and GID of these. */
147 if (u
&& !is_number (u
))
148 setenv ("USER", u
, 1);
149 if (g
&& !is_number (g
))
150 setenv ("GROUP", g
, 1);
155 /* If it starts with "+", skip the look-up. */
156 pwd
= (*u
== '+' ? NULL
: getpwnam (u
));
160 bool use_login_group
= (separator
!= NULL
&& g
== NULL
);
163 /* If there is no group,
164 then there may not be a trailing ":", either. */
165 error_msg
= N_("invalid spec");
169 unsigned long int tmp
;
170 if (xstrtoul (u
, NULL
, 10, &tmp
, "") == LONGINT_OK
171 && tmp
<= MAXUID
&& (uid_t
) tmp
!= (uid_t
) -1)
174 error_msg
= N_("invalid user");
180 if (g
== NULL
&& separator
!= NULL
)
182 /* A separator was given, but a group was not specified,
183 so get the login group. */
184 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
186 grp
= getgrgid (gnum
);
187 gname
= xstrdup (grp
? grp
->gr_name
: umaxtostr (gnum
, buf
));
194 if (g
!= NULL
&& error_msg
== NULL
)
196 /* Explicit group. */
197 /* If it starts with "+", skip the look-up. */
198 grp
= (*g
== '+' ? NULL
: getgrnam (g
));
202 unsigned long int tmp
;
203 if (xstrtoul (g
, NULL
, 10, &tmp
, "") == LONGINT_OK
204 && tmp
<= MAXGID
&& (gid_t
) tmp
!= (gid_t
) -1)
207 error_msg
= N_("invalid group");
211 endgrent (); /* Save a file descriptor. */
215 if (error_msg
== NULL
)
234 return error_msg
? _(error_msg
) : NULL
;
237 /* Extract from SPEC, which has the form "[user][:.][group]",
238 a USERNAME, UID U, GROUPNAME, and GID G.
239 If the GID parameter is NULL the entire SPEC is treated as a user.
240 If the USERNAME and GROUPNAME parameters are NULL they're ignored.
241 Either user or group, or both, must be present.
242 If the group is omitted but the separator is given,
243 use the given user's login group.
244 If SPEC contains a ':', then use that as the separator, ignoring
245 any '.'s. If there is no ':', but there is a '.', then first look
246 up the entire SPEC as a login name. If that look-up fails, then
247 try again interpreting the '.' as a separator.
249 USERNAME and GROUPNAME will be in newly malloc'd memory.
250 Either one might be NULL instead, indicating that it was not
251 given and the corresponding numeric ID was left unchanged.
253 Return NULL if successful, a static error message string if not.
254 If PWARN is null, return NULL instead of a warning;
255 otherwise, set *PWARN to true depending on whether returning a warning. */
258 parse_user_spec_warn (char const *spec
, uid_t
*uid
, gid_t
*gid
,
259 char **username
, char **groupname
, bool *pwarn
)
261 char const *colon
= gid
? strchr (spec
, ':') : NULL
;
262 char const *error_msg
=
263 parse_with_separator (spec
, colon
, uid
, gid
, username
, groupname
);
266 if (gid
&& !colon
&& error_msg
)
268 /* If there's no colon but there is a dot, and if looking up the
269 whole spec failed (i.e., the spec is not an owner name that
270 includes a dot), then try again, but interpret the dot as a
271 separator. This is a compatible extension to POSIX, since
272 the POSIX-required behavior is always tried first. */
274 char const *dot
= strchr (spec
, '.');
276 && ! parse_with_separator (spec
, dot
, uid
, gid
, username
, groupname
))
279 error_msg
= pwarn
? N_("warning: '.' should be ':'") : NULL
;
288 /* Like parse_user_spec_warn, but generate only errors; no warnings. */
291 parse_user_spec (char const *spec
, uid_t
*uid
, gid_t
*gid
,
292 char **username
, char **groupname
)
294 return parse_user_spec_warn (spec
, uid
, gid
, username
, groupname
, NULL
);
299 # define NULL_CHECK(s) ((s) == NULL ? "(null)" : (s))
302 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
306 for (i
= 1; i
< argc
; i
++)
309 char *username
, *groupname
;
314 tmp
= strdup (argv
[i
]);
315 e
= parse_user_spec (tmp
, &uid
, &gid
, &username
, &groupname
);
317 printf ("%s: %lu %lu %s %s %s\n",
319 (unsigned long int) uid
,
320 (unsigned long int) gid
,
321 NULL_CHECK (username
),
322 NULL_CHECK (groupname
),
333 indent-tabs-mode: nil