From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 18: 8:57 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 649DE37B66E for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9A1Af699743; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:10:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from abc) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:10:41 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <20001009211041.D98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001009210523.B12559@peitho.fxp.org>; from jedgar@fxp.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:05:23PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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