From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 29 19:15:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (nhj.nlc.net.au [203.24.133.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0487B37B847 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:15:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@nlc.net.au) Received: (qmail 16876 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2000 14:15:37 +1100 Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (HELO vecomm3) (203.24.133.1) by nhj.nlc.net.au with SMTP; 1 Mar 2000 14:15:37 +1100 Message-ID: <018901bf832c$43ae9da0$4ab511cb@scitec.com.au> From: "John Saunders" To: "Andrew Kenneth Milton" Cc: "Krassimir Slavchev" , References: <200003010237.MAA56681@mail.theinternet.com.au> Subject: Re: adduser? Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:14:30 +1100 Organization: NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > '.' 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. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders - mailto:john@nlc.net.au (EMail) | ,--_|\ | - http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | / Oz \ | - 02-9489-4932 or 041-822-3814 (Phone) | \_,--\_/ | NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS P/L - Supplying a professional, | v | and above all friendly, internet connection service. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message