From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 12 9:31:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (straylight.ringlet.net [217.75.134.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3202637B405 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 74946 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Oct 2001 16:24:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:24:57 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Warner Losh Cc: Yar Tikhiy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Valid user name Message-ID: <20011012192457.A74895@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Warner Losh , Yar Tikhiy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011012145227.D46577@snark.rinet.ru> <200110121552.f9CFqA793345@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110121552.f9CFqA793345@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:52:10AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message