From 506c01dc8fc5b596e19b574201b386a02e3074c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:59:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] import-tar: fix empty user/group name in TarInfo, fixes #5853

if the tar has no information about user/group name (empty string),
we must assign None to Item.user/group (not the empty string).
---
 src/borg/archive.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/borg/archive.py b/src/borg/archive.py
index 2de2e90e9..aca04c0b9 100644
--- a/src/borg/archive.py
+++ b/src/borg/archive.py
@@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ class TarfileObjectProcessors:
     @contextmanager
     def create_helper(self, tarinfo, status=None, type=None):
         item = Item(path=make_path_safe(tarinfo.name), mode=tarinfo.mode | type,
-                    uid=tarinfo.uid, gid=tarinfo.gid, user=tarinfo.uname, group=tarinfo.gname,
+                    uid=tarinfo.uid, gid=tarinfo.gid, user=tarinfo.uname or None, group=tarinfo.gname or None,
                     mtime=tarinfo.mtime * 1000**3)
         yield item, status
         # if we get here, "with"-block worked ok without error/exception, the item was processed ok...