From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 17:58:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F3C37B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9A10hi99570 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:00:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from abc) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:00:43 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from DougB@gorean.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 05:43:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To those that wish to allow "." (dot) in usernames, please don't do this. Note commands like chown that use it (dot) as a seperator between login name and group. chown -R abc.staff . Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message