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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 08:45:57 -0700
From:      Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c
Message-ID:  <01053108455702.00675@brother>
In-Reply-To: <20010531114649.B2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>
References:  <200105301619.f4UGJEo91944@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010531114457.A2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010531114649.B2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>

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On Thursday 31 May 2001 02:46 am, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Alexander Langer (alex@big.endian.de):
> > >   Fixed two bugs, first not allowing '.' as a valid login name
> > > character in okname() in util.c and second, returning != 0 when you do
> > > have an
> >
> > A MFC might break thousands of stable systems out there.
> > Uhm, not "break", but probably a whole bunch of users won't be able to
> > login and everything.
>
> Oh, wait.  I was too fast.
> Is only rcp affected or are you going to change it everywhere?
> Or is only rcp broken at the moment?
>
> Sorry,
>
> Alex

Teach me to read the whole thread before responding.  Yes, rcp
is one of the few commands that currently barfs with my login
of 'Jim.Pirzyk', chown being the only known other one.  

- JimP

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