Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:50:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd & login class bug (was Re: cvs commit: src/etc master.passwd) Message-ID: <19971027205018.44557@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199710280414.VAA06316@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 04:14:17AM %2B0000 References: <199710271906.VAA29746@greenpeace.grondar.za> <199710280414.VAA06316@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert scribbled this message on Oct 28:
> > Suggestion: make the syntax for "user" <user>[/<group>[/<userclass>]],
> > instead of the current <user>. <group> and <userclass> 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.
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