find(1) and group/user handling

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

WRT to your (kre's) PR bin/46158, I have to wonder ...

Assume there is an entry in the password database for a username "123"
but with uid value of 456.  If find is invoked with '-user 123' should
we match this pw entry and compare the file's numeric owner with 456?
Or should find(1) treat an all-numeric username strictly as a number,
and compare in this case against 123?

In the latter case, it makes sense to allow the plus/minus prefix.

But if we decide that the "username" provided should be treated as a
name whenever possible, then it would not make sense to permit the
prefix.  A '-user +123' should strictly match a username of +123;  if
no such user exists (sidebar:  are + and - valid characters in a
username?) we should treat the request as "any user id greater than 
123".

In my opinion, the -user and -group primaries should work strictly with
_names_, and _never_ fallback to {u,g}id values;  we could easily add
new primaries -uid and -gid to search for the numeric values.  However,
this would make find(1) incompatible with existing versions.

Comments?


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