Hi,
I added a user with a '.' in his name just to find that I couldn't use chown
for that user. I have written a patch to escape '.' in the user name.
[manas@manas Cprog] diff -car fileutils-3.16.mod/lib/userspec.c
fileutils-3.16.orig/lib/userspec.c
*** fileutils-3.16.mod/lib/userspec.c Fri Feb 11 18:34:17 2000
--- fileutils-3.16.orig/lib/userspec.c Mon Jul 15 09:05:14 1996
***************
*** 135,168 ****
/* Find the separator if there is one. */
separator = strchr (spec, ':');
-
- /* '.' needs to be handled differently as there might be a lot of them
- * and many of them might be escaped.
- */
if (separator == NULL)
! {
! char *spec_bck = spec;
! int doexit=0;
!
! while (!doexit)
! {
! separator = strchr (spec_bck, '.');
!
! /* Find if '.' is escaped by a '\' */
! if (separator && separator != spec_bck && *(separator - 1) == '\\')
! {
! int len;
!
! len = strlen (spec_bck) - (separator - spec_bck);
! memmove(separator - 1, separator, len);
! spec_bck[ strlen(spec_bck) - 1 ] = '\0';
! spec_bck = separator + 1;
! separator = NULL;
! }
! else
! doexit = 1;
! }
! }
/* Replace separator with a NUL. */
if (separator != NULL)
--- 135,142 ----
/* Find the separator if there is one. */
separator = strchr (spec, ':');
if (separator == NULL)
! separator = strchr (spec, '.');
/* Replace separator with a NUL. */
if (separator != NULL)
-------------//\\----------------
Please let me know what you think about this patch.
--manas
