From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 10 7:30:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [205.252.34.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D29E37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [205.252.34.3]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110D92E443 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9AEUNK53314; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:30:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.10239.908042.184468@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:30:23 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - In-Reply-To: <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <200010091802.MAA13347@harmony.village.org> <20001009210043.A98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "AC" == Alan Clegg writes: AC> chown -R abc.staff . AC> Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command. I believe this is why the new "preferred" form is to use a colon to separate user and group as this chown -R abc:staff . How that reacts to also having a dot, I don't know as I've never tried it. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message