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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



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