From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:37:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add support to user_in_group() for treating group names that begin with
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_7_6~16
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=636c5a1c7fb92fc1ce145c17bcf5c4c17d3ddd5f;p=sudo

Add support to user_in_group() for treating group names that begin with
a '#' as gids.

--HG--
branch : 1.7
---

diff --git a/pwutil.c b/pwutil.c
index 8cb3998a7..548da4d2d 100644
--- a/pwutil.c
+++ b/pwutil.c
@@ -677,7 +677,9 @@ user_in_group(pw, group)
 #ifdef HAVE_SETAUTHDB
     aix_setauthdb(pw->pw_name);
 #endif
-    grp = sudo_getgrnam(group);
+    /* A group name that begins with a '#' may be a gid. */
+    if ((grp = sudo_getgrnam(group)) == NULL && *group == '#')
+	grp = sudo_getgrgid(atoi(group + 1));
 #ifdef HAVE_SETAUTHDB
     aix_restoreauthdb();
 #endif