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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:10:41 -0400
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To:        Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: username with -
Message-ID:  <20001009211041.D98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org>; from jedgar@fxp.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:05:23PM -0400
References:  <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091741150.84731-200000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org>

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Unless the network is lying to me again, Chris Faulhaber said: 
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:

> > Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command.

>      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.

"ouch!" Well, *I* use dots, so don't do that out of respect, OK?     8-)

AlanC


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