Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:28:27 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Group ownership (WHY : or .) Message-ID: <19980825112827.A5540@flarn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980825141843.A28749@rucus.ru.ac.za>; from Neil Blakey-Milner on Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 02:18:43PM %2B0200 References: <199808241539.IAA18194@pau-amma.whistle.com> <35E2373E.F4757D70@aei.ca> <19980825141843.A28749@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 02:18:43PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > I was thinking it was newuser.newgroup and not newuser:newgroup. > > Why there is both version? > > The man page uses ":", and that's where I learnt it. They both work, but I think ":" is preferred because it's nice to be able to use "." in usernames. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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