chown xxx.yyy is now rejected

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:46:10PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:14:16PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > The 'chown xxx.yyy' syntax has been deprecated for several releases
> > now, the correct syntax being 'chown xxx:yyy'.
> 
> Doesn't this add a new restriction about ":" in usernames ?

New since when exactly?  When have ':' in usernames worked?

SuS says:

"The colon character was chosen as the replacement for the period
character because it would never be allowed as a character in a user
name or group name on historical implementations."

Anyway, it turns out that the LSB still requires '.' to work, so
(unless they change their minds before 2.0 is released) Fedora Core 2
will ship with a chown that still accepts '.' after all.

Tim.
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