Re: Userid/passwords

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,
> > >  [ SuS says dots are OK in user names ]
> >  [ chown doesn't like dots ]
>  That's why chown foo:bar FILE is the preferred syntax and foo.bar is only a
>  deprecated extension for compatibility with older scripts.
Unfortunately, GNU fileutils doesn't accept dots in user names, and 
the manpage (which arguably shouldn't be used when Info files exist) 
doesn't document colons.

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Matthias Urlichs