vendredi 1 juillet, vers 17h, Vincent Caron dactylographia :

> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 12:45 +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > vendredi 1 juillet, vers 12h, Vincent Caron dactylographia :
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:30 +0200, Cron Daemon wrote:
> > > > /bin/chown: `splinux.svusers': invalid user
> > > 
> > > I guess this comes from the Woody -> Sarge update, the '.'
> > > separator is no longer supported, ':' is the official one. This
> > > chown occurence is in sv_users (fix in CVS).
> > > 
> > > Maybe we should re-read sv_groups with Sarge's groupadd(8)
> > > manpage as reference, that might explain our recent troubles
> > > with group creation.
> > 
> > Have you any docs related to this?
> > 
> > I'm running etch on my desktops computers and the manual says that
> > dot is legitimate separator.
> 
> When using UIDs, otherwise with plain names it should be wrong. I
> have a Sarge server with a legitimate unix account having a '.' in
> its name.

As said in the manual, it will take the . for a separator unless
it match a username.

The ':' is added because of Posix requirements, but it does break the
'.'. 

Fortunately. If it was the case, I'd expect several billions of
scripts on earth to be broken :)


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