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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:41:58 +0700 (NSS)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
Cc:        Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: username with -
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010101241250.34138-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20001009211041.D98723@diskfarm.firehouse.net>

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hi, there!

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Alan Clegg wrote:

> > > Having login names with dots in them confuses the heck out of this command.
> 
> >      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.
> 
> "ouch!" Well, *I* use dots, so don't do that out of respect, OK?     8-)

solaris and linux also use ':' to distinguish group name

/fjoe



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