From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 22:44:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA8137B66E for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA34620; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:41:58 +0700 (NSS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:41:58 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon To: Alan Clegg Cc: Chris Faulhaber , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - In-Reply-To: <20001009211041.D98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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