[CentOS] Why are dots in username & groupname no longer allowed?
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Fri Jan 6 13:28:14 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:09 +0000, Will McDonald wrote:
> On 06/01/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> > I disagree ... not that it matters what I think. If chown and chgrp
> > allow dots to seperate user and group, I don't think they should not be
> > allowed in user names (or at least this should be a major factor to
> > consider).
>
> "I don't think they should not be allowed", is that double negative
> intentional? :)
Accident ... I don't think they should be allowed :)
>
> I think '.' as a separator for chown etc. is a GNU thing. I seem to
> remember Solaris only accepts ':'.
>
right ... if this was solaris, dots would be ok :)
but ... I still think dots should not be used. I can see the benefit
too though.
> http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/cgi-bin/man?chown+1
>
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