Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:07:21 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> 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: <20010531200721.E46933@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <01053109442905.00675@brother>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700 References: <200105301619.f4UGJEo91944@freefall.freebsd.org> <01053108455702.00675@brother> <20010531193716.C46933@sunbay.com> <01053109442905.00675@brother>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > 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. > Perhaps add _SC_CHOWN_DOT_SYNTAX to sysconf(3)? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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