Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:17:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch to /etc/rc Message-ID: <19990313111755.N429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 11:51:11PM %2B0100 References: <19990312222717.A17750@keltia.freenix.fr> <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9903121355220.9105-100000@dei.calldei.com> <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Friday, 12 March 1999 at 23:51:11 +0100, 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. My understanding is that you can have periods in user names, but obviously (see /etc/passwd) not colons. Greg - See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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