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 :) -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
