From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 16:48:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B78F152F7 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:48:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA27099; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:17:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA06377; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:17:55 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990313111755.N429@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:17:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ollivier Robert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch to /etc/rc References: <19990312222717.A17750@keltia.freenix.fr> <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990312235111.A24106@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 11:51:11PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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