Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:14:30 +1100 From: "John Saunders" <john@nlc.net.au> To: "Andrew Kenneth Milton" <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au> Cc: "Krassimir Slavchev" <krassi@bulinfo.net>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adduser? Message-ID: <018901bf832c$43ae9da0$4ab511cb@scitec.com.au> References: <200003010237.MAA56681@mail.theinternet.com.au>
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> '.' is a deprecated seperator for chown. ':' is now the preferred item...
>
> COMPATIBILITY
> 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.
>
> '.' should probably be allowed in adduser
I quick look at the source code for chown verifies that if a ':' is used
then
chown doesn't even look for a '.' and hence names with dots should be safe.
Just remember to update any legacy admin scripts that you have before
starting to allow dots in your usernames.
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