Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:33:38 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch to /etc/rc Message-ID: <19990313003444.43E3F15362@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:51:11 %2B0100." <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr>
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In message <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr>, Ollivier Robert wrote: } According to Chris Costello: } > Are there any advantages of user:group as opposed to user.group? } } None to my knowledge, it is just that user.group is supposed to be more or } less deprecated. On systems which allow a dot in the username, user.group is ambiguous. Since a colon is not legal in a username under any UNIX, user:group is not. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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