6 Jan
2006
6 Jan
'06
12:09 p.m.
On 06/01/06, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@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? :)
I think '.' as a separator for chown etc. is a GNU thing. I seem to remember Solaris only accepts ':'.
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/cgi-bin/man?chown+1
FWIW, using '.' as a separator isn't documented in the GNU chown man page.
Will.