On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:52:10AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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.
This might be a problem for NIS or Kerberos domains - an older version of FreeBSD might be confuzzled by usernames which are perfectly valid for the rest of the client boxes. G'luck, Peter -- because I didn't think of a good beginning of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
