Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:52:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Valid user name Message-ID: <200110121552.f9CFqA793345@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:52:28 %2B0400." <20011012145227.D46577@snark.rinet.ru> References: <20011012145227.D46577@snark.rinet.ru>
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In message <20011012145227.D46577@snark.rinet.ru> Yar Tikhiy writes:
: Is there any reason to omit the period ('.') from the list of valid
: characters? With the period included, the list would conform to
: POSIX's definition of a valid user name.
Not any more. it used to be that chown user.group would be
ambiguous. now it isn't, since user:group is the right syntax.
Warner
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