In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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