Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:30:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <14819.10239.908042.184468@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> 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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>>>>> "AC" == Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> writes: AC> chown -R abc.staff . AC> Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command. I believe this is why the new "preferred" form is to use a colon to separate user and group as this chown -R abc:staff . How that reacts to also having a dot, I don't know as I've never tried it. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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