Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:05:23 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net>; from abc@bsdi.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0400 References: <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091741150.84731-200000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:
> To those that wish to allow "." (dot) in usernames, please don't do
> this. Note commands like chown that use it (dot) as a seperator between
> login name and group.
>
> chown -R abc.staff .
>
> Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command.
>
From chown(8):
SYNOPSIS
chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...
chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...
...
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to
distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (``:'')
character so that user and group names may contain the dot character.
--
Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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