Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:37:16 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c Message-ID: <20010531193716.C46933@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <01053108455702.00675@brother>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:45:57AM -0700 References: <200105301619.f4UGJEo91944@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010531114457.A2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010531114649.B2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <01053108455702.00675@brother>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:45:57AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2001 02:46 am, Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Alexander Langer (alex@big.endian.de): > > > > Fixed two bugs, first not allowing '.' as a valid login name > > > > character in okname() in util.c and second, returning != 0 when you do > > > > have an > > > > > > A MFC might break thousands of stable systems out there. > > > Uhm, not "break", but probably a whole bunch of users won't be able to > > > login and everything. > > > > Oh, wait. I was too fast. > > Is only rcp affected or are you going to change it everywhere? > > Or is only rcp broken at the moment? > > > > Sorry, > > > > Alex > > Teach me to read the whole thread before responding. Yes, rcp > is one of the few commands that currently barfs with my login > of 'Jim.Pirzyk', chown being the only known other one. > Newer POSIX specifically removed user.group format for that reason. You can chown(8) by UID though. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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