From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 18: 5:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4978637B66C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id DBC9A1360D; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:05:23 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Alan Clegg Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org> References: <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net>; from abc@bsdi.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote: > 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. > From chown(8): SYNOPSIS chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ... chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ... ... COMPATIBILITY 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. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message