From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 16:35:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pobox.com (harconia-2-119.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.132.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43E3F15362 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: (qmail 18967 invoked from network); 12 Mar 1999 18:33:38 -0600 Received: from localhost (HELO pobox.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Mar 1999 18:33:38 -0600 To: Ollivier Robert Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch to /etc/rc In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:51:11 +0100." <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:33:38 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <19990313003444.43E3F15362@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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