Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:44:29 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> 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: <01053109442905.00675@brother> In-Reply-To: <20010531193716.C46933@sunbay.com> References: <200105301619.f4UGJEo91944@freefall.freebsd.org> <01053108455702.00675@brother> <20010531193716.C46933@sunbay.com>
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On Thursday 31 May 2001 09:37 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 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. :-)
Yes, also I removed the -DSUPPORT_DOT from the chowm Makefile
and recompiled. What I see in the future is some sort of runtime
configuration to determine if chown is to use the '.' as a group
seperator. Maybe a defaults file /etc/defaults/chown (like SVR4)
or a sysctl variable user.chown.use_dot and the default be the
current behavior, but that in our site, we would change the default.
- JimP
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