Re: why does start-stop-daemon not support --chgid ?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:20:12PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > The current CVS now has a call to initgroups() and also allows the --chuid
> > arg to be in the form of "user.group".
> 
> Please change this to user:group so that period-containing usernames will
> work.

Don't worry; major other things might go wrong before we care about
start-stop-daemon if you have periods in your usernames.  How will you
chown something to a period-containing username, for example?
(Answer: use the numeric uid.  But do you really want to do that?)

   Julian

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