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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 19:37:16 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c
Message-ID:  <20010531193716.C46933@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <01053108455702.00675@brother>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:45:57AM -0700
References:  <200105301619.f4UGJEo91944@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010531114457.A2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010531114649.B2356@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <01053108455702.00675@brother>

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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:45:57AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> 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.  
> 
Newer POSIX specifically removed user.group format for that reason.
You can chown(8) by UID though.  :-)


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