From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 22 22:17:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17947 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17942 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA24984; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:17:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:17:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: Tim Tsai cc: Studded , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? In-Reply-To: <19970919214620.01498@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > Having recently converted a garbage :-) bin full of Sun Solaris boxes > to FreeBSD, I am happy to report that "." works in most places. > > chown doesn't like it, obviously, but in those few cases I just use the > uid (but then again, there are users who has strictly numeric user > names!!!). Isn't that the point of the : separator for chown? Perhaps the . separator should start to go away? > Tim > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."