On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Booker Bense <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is this statement in the IBM man page still true? > > Specifies the name of each group to create. Provide a string of up to 63 > characters, which can include lowercase (but not uppercase) letters, > numbers, and punctuation marks. A regular name includes a single colon (*: > *) to separate the two parts of the name; the colon cannot appear in a > prefix-less group name. > > Can there be only two parts? (i.e. is bbense:foo:bar ) a valid pts group? > It's really owner:groupname, with some exceptions for administrative groups; the way pts exposes this is awkward at best, and inappropriately suggests that it's a general separator. So I would expect that it's still true and that it's unlikely to change. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
