Re: [chown] escaping '.' in a user name; A patch

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
   Date: 13 Feb 2000 18:26:24 -0500

   > Thanks for the report and patch.
   > I've updated the chown --help output and documentation to reflect
   > the fact that `.' is now being deprecated.  Use `:', not `.' as the
   > separator.  Then your example works fine.

   OK, I'll ask.

   What happens if the user name includes a :?

Then it can not be stored in a traditional /etc/passwd file, so other
code would probably break too.

Ian