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To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Valid user name 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:52:28 +0400."
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:52:10 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20011012145227.D46577@snark.rinet.ru> Yar Tikhiy writes:
: Is there any reason to omit the period ('.') from the list of valid
: characters?  With the period included, the list would conform to
: POSIX's definition of a valid user name.

Not any more.  it used to be that chown user.group would be
ambiguous.  now it isn't, since user:group is the right syntax.

Warner

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