[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/tar: only store numeric uid/gid

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:49:16 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> If a target user is asigned a UID (e.g. 1000) that happens to also exist
> on the build machine, tar will happily store the username for that user.
> 
> This can be seen by some as potential information disclosure.
> 
> Instruct tar to just store the numeric uid/gid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

I hesitated a bit on this one, but I preferred to err on the safe side,
and therefore applied this patch to the 'next' branch.

Thanks!

Thomas
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