Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:24:57 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Valid user name Message-ID: <20011012192457.A74895@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200110121552.f9CFqA793345@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:52:10AM -0600 References: <20011012145227.D46577@snark.rinet.ru> <200110121552.f9CFqA793345@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:52:10AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
This might be a problem for NIS or Kerberos domains - an older version
of FreeBSD might be confuzzled by usernames which are perfectly valid
for the rest of the client boxes.
G'luck,
Peter
--
because I didn't think of a good beginning of it.
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