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.