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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message