Issue #12841: Fix tarfile extraction of non-existent uids/gids.
tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user and group ids on
extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id of the current user
(i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership information was lost. (Patch
by Sebastien Luttringer)
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 112b419..6828eab 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2264,17 +2264,11 @@
try:
g = grp.getgrnam(tarinfo.gname)[2]
except KeyError:
- try:
- g = grp.getgrgid(tarinfo.gid)[2]
- except KeyError:
- g = os.getgid()
+ g = tarinfo.gid
try:
u = pwd.getpwnam(tarinfo.uname)[2]
except KeyError:
- try:
- u = pwd.getpwuid(tarinfo.uid)[2]
- except KeyError:
- u = os.getuid()
+ u = tarinfo.uid
try:
if tarinfo.issym() and hasattr(os, "lchown"):
os.lchown(targetpath, u, g)