On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:01:11PM +0200, Bruno Rohee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:57:00PM +0300, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > > IMHO, either the man pages should be altered, or the chown program, so > > that it understands no '.', but just the ':'. > > Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about the > last 30 years.
Too bad. It _is_ a bad feature and _should_ go away, since usernames permit periods. Permitting both the dot in chown and the dot in usernames seems wrong to me. IMHO, *either* the man pages and the allowed chars in a username should be altered, *or* the chown program, so that it understands no '.', but just the ':' -- Thanos Tsouanas .: My Music: http://www.thanostsouanas.com/ http://thanos.sians.org/ .: Sians Music: http://www.sians.org/
