Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:41:58 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> To: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> Cc: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010101241250.34138-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20001009211041.D98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
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hi, there! On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, 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-) solaris and linux also use ':' to distinguish group name /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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