In the last episode (May 12), Mark Murray said:
> Bob K wrote:
> > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is
> > defined as follows:
>
> Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having
> an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK.
but, from the chown manpage:
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (`.')
character to distinguish the group name. This has been changed to
be a colon (`:') character so that user and group names may
contain the dot character.
So it sounds like the rest of the system is leaning toward allowing
dots in usernames as well.
-Dan Nelson
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