From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 27 20:50:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA25585 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:50:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA25577 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:50:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA03372; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:50:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971027205018.44557@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:50:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd & login class bug (was Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd) References: <199710271906.VAA29746@greenpeace.grondar.za> <199710280414.VAA06316@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199710280414.VAA06316@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 04:14:17AM +0000 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert scribbled this message on Oct 28: > > Suggestion: make the syntax for "user" [/[/]], > > instead of the current . and are allowed to > > be blank, and default appropriately. > > I like this. > > I think the seperator should be ".", as in "chown user.group". well.. we should be keeping with the times and use `:'... on Solaris you can't use `.' as a seperator (it's REALLY anoying)... 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. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD