Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I tried to create a user "m.ring" on sourceware.
| Then I did "chown -R m.ring /home/m.ring"
| chown complains about the username, perhaps because it is
| misinterpreting it as "user m, group ring" (?).
|
| [root@sourceware ~m.ring]# chown -R m.ring .
| chown: m.ring: invalid user
Thanks for the report.
That was fixed for fileutils-4.0q:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0q.tar.gz
* chown now works properly when the specified login name contains a period
This is at the expense of always looking up the entire USER.GROUP string
as a login name first, and only then (upon failure) interpreting the `.'
as a separator and looking up `USER'. To avoid the extra getpwnam call,
always use the POSIX-mandated `:' character as the separator.
