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.
