On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 19:35 -0500, Gerardo Santana Gsmez Garrido wrote:
> On 7/20/05, Tim Hammerquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > > Telnet was used for most of the last 30 years, too.
> >
> > telnet is still a wonderful tool that I use all the time.
>
> He meant telne
On 7/20/05, Tim Hammerquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > Bruno Rohee wrote:
> > > Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about
> > > the last 30 years.
> >
> > Telnet was used for most of the last 30 years, too.
>
> telnet is still a wonderful tool t
On 2005/07/21 15:32:37, Alexander Bochmann wrote:
> ...on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> > nc(1) doesn't work for the telnet cli on speedtouch ADSL routers,
> > though.
>
> That's probably because, quite unlike telnet(1),
> nc(1) isn't a telnet client (but
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:11 +0200, Bjvrn Sjvberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:32:45PM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> > Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > It's great for testing basic service availability, version strings,
> or
> > even a manual session without a lot of process overhead or
> connecti
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:11:50PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:01 +0200, Bruno Rohee wrote:
> > > Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about the
> > > last 30 years.
> >
> > Telnet was used for most
...on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> nc(1) doesn't work for the telnet cli on speedtouch ADSL routers,
> though.
That's probably because, quite unlike telnet(1),
nc(1) isn't a telnet client (but you can use nc -t,
if you absolutely want to).
Alex.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:32:45PM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> telnet is still a wonderful tool that I use all the time.
>
> $ telnet hostname 25
>
> $ telnet hostname 80
>
> $ telnet hostname 22
>
> It's great for testing basic service availability, version strings, or
> even a manual sess
--On 21 July 2005 14:11 +0200, BjC6rn SjC6berg wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:32:45PM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
It's great for testing basic service availability, version strings,
or even a manual session without a lot of process overhead or
connection negotiation.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:32:45PM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> It's great for testing basic service availability, version strings, or
> even a manual session without a lot of process overhead or connection
> negotiation.
I've also been using telnet to do that kind of jo
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> Bruno Rohee wrote:
> > Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about
> > the last 30 years.
>
> Telnet was used for most of the last 30 years, too.
telnet is still a wonderful tool that I use all the time.
$ telnet hostname 25
$ telnet hostname 80
$
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:01 +0200, Bruno Rohee wrote:
> > Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about the
> > last 30 years.
>
> Telnet was used for most of the last 30 years, too.
the introduction of ssh did not magically make
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:01 +0200, Bruno Rohee wrote:
> Thus breaking a behaviour that people have been used too for about the
> last 30 years.
Telnet was used for most of the last 30 years, too.
--
Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 peopl
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.
--
Fairy Tale, n.:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:10:46PM +0200, Moritz Grimm wrote:
> Even though the chown(8) man page states that the colon needs to be the
> separator between user and group, the period (still(?), maybe for
> historical/POSIXish reasons?) can function as the separator as well.
> This means that und
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:59:18AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > 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?) bu
Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
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?
The reasons
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Thanos Tsouanas
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:02 AM
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: '.' in username
>
> Hello.
>
> I just found out that chsh complains if a username has a '.' in it:
>
> % sudo
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?)
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