Re: chown xxx.yyy is now rejected

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:54:48PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > Doesn't this add a new restriction about ":" in usernames ?
> New since when exactly?  When have ':' in usernames worked?

Should work for non passwd format databases, but you are right, it breaks
all sorts of stuff