[CentOS] Why are dots in username & groupname no longer allowed?
Will McDonald
wmcdonald at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 11:09:16 UTC 2006
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? :)
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.
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