Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:10:41 -0400 From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <20001009211041.D98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org>; from jedgar@fxp.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:05:23PM -0400 References: <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091741150.84731-200000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org>
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Unless the network is lying to me again, Chris Faulhaber said: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote: > > Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command. > 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. "ouch!" Well, *I* use dots, so don't do that out of respect, OK? 8-) AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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