Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:17:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970923011609.16841B-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <19970919214620.01498@futuresouth.com>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > Having recently converted a garbage :-) bin full of Sun Solaris boxes > to FreeBSD, I am happy to report that "." works in most places. > > chown doesn't like it, obviously, but in those few cases I just use the > uid (but then again, there are users who has strictly numeric user > names!!!). Isn't that the point of the : separator for chown? Perhaps the . separator should start to go away? > Tim > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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