Question regarding file modes

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Holger Schurig <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de> [2004.11.12.1421 +0100]:
>   my $uid = ($user  =~ /^\d+$/) ? $user  : getpwnam $user;
>   my $gid = ($group =~ /^\d+$/) ? $group : getgrnam $group;

This is OT, but please start using getent instead of
getpwnam/getgrnam, both of which are ancient and broken.

> which uses getpwnam / getgrnam.  This is wrong, because the uid
> and gid should be taken from $target/etc/passwd or
> $target/etc/group, but not from /etc/passwd or /etc/group.

so it should use chroot and getent. Good spot though.

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