From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 12 11:41:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D77014FCB for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA65917; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:40:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:40:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Murray Cc: Bob K , Christopher Michaels , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dots in usernames? Message-ID: <19990512134034.A65753@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199905121833.UAA05194@greenpeace.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <199905121833.UAA05194@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from "Mark Murray" on Wed May 12 20:32:59 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 12), Mark Murray said: > Bob K wrote: > > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is > > defined as follows: > > Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having > an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK. but, from the chown manpage: COMPATIBILITY Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (`.') character to distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (`:') character so that user and group names may contain the dot character. So it sounds like the rest of the system is leaning toward allowing dots in usernames as well. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message