Maybe because of
chown foo.bar filename? 2005/7/20, Thanos Tsouanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just found out that chsh complains if a username has a '.' in it: > > % sudo chsh foo.bar > [ ... ] > chsh: '.' is dangerous in a login name > > I'm sure there's a reason (why? regexps involved?) but I think that > since chsh complains, adduser should complain too. No?
