Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:13:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: angela <angelayu@ca.inter.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login name 'xxxdotxxx' Message-ID: <20010718171312.A72295@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3B559208.1F66D15C@ca.inter.net>; from angelayu@ca.inter.net on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:41:28AM -0400 References: <3B559208.1F66D15C@ca.inter.net>
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From: angela <angelayu@ca.inter.net> Subject: login name 'xxxdotxxx' Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:41:28AM -0400 > Hi > > Do you think it is suitable to have login name 'xxx dot xxx' as > angela.yu? > Is it any bad effect on system? In certain older versions the chown(1) command would accept the notation username.group as a valid format for it's first argument. It still does in certain implementations of chown(1). You would write something like: # chown angela.yu file to change the owner of `file' to user 'angela' of group 'yu'. Therefore, it's not a good idea to have dots in login names. If what you are trying to do is make e-mail messages addressed to angela.yu@my.domain.com be delivered to your mailbox, it's better to choose some username like 'angela' or one that does not contain dots, and have an alias called 'angela.yu' point to that username. When I wanted to have all mail sent to giorgos.keramidas@domain.com delivered to my mailbox, I added an account for me called 'giorgos', and added to my /etc/mail/aliases the line: giorgos.keramidas giorgos That made everything work great, and I could still write: # chown giorgos.users /path/to/some/file -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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