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Re: About valid and invalid user names



Am 2005-02-05 14:18:32, schrieb Wim De Smet:

> I think the discussion came up earlier here. IIRC the conclusion was
> that it could be relaxed for .'s (don't know about numbers). Although
> it can cause confusion with chown a.b format. But chown should now be
> patched to behave correctly on chown a.a:b.b (eg username and group name
> separated by ':'). At least that's how I remember it. Can somebody
> verify this?

Hello Wim,

I am using WOODY and 'chown' already support 'chown a.a:b.b'
So I think, it works under SARGE and SID too.

  __( command 'ls -Al /home' )__________________________________________
 /
| drwxr-xr-x   30 athina.r athina.r     1024  1. Jan 21:40 athina.russel
| drwxr-xr-x   24 root     root         1024  3. Dez 20:46 BAK_debian
| drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         1024 16. Jan 20:11 BAK_michelle1
| drwxr-xr-x   28 diana.se diana.se     1024  1. Jan 22:36 diana.seitz
| drwxr-xr-x   29 eyup.dog eyup.dog     1024 13. Nov 00:58 eyup.dogu
| drwxr-xr-x   25 fathia.r fathia.r     1024 13. Nov 00:58 fathia.rachek
| drwxr-xr-x   29 fayah.do fayah.do     1024 13. Nov 00:58 fayah.dogan
| drwxr-xr-x   24 root     root         1024 13. Nov 00:58 home
| drwxr-xr-x   27 karima.k karima.k     1024 19. Jan 18:40 karima.kalaaji
| drwxr-xr-x   22 leila.pa leila.pa     1024 28. Dez 18:32 leila.pahlavi
| drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        12288 20. Nov 19:23 lost+found
| drwxr-xr-x   28 lydia.ac lydia.ac     1024 13. Nov 00:58 lydia.ackermann
| drwxr-xr-x   34 marian.d marian.d     1024 13. Nov 00:58 marian.domeracki
| drwxr-xr-x   27 mehdi.se mehdi.se     1024 13. Nov 00:58 mehdi.serhane
| drwxr-xr-x  139 michelle privat       4096  5. Feb 12:10 michelle.konzack
| drwxr-xr-x   28 michiar  developm     1024  9. Jan 13:42 michiar
| drwxr-xr-x   22 michitr  developm     1024 13. Nov 00:58 michitr
| drwxr-xr-x   24 nancy    nancy        1024 13. Nov 00:58 nancy
| drwxr-xr-x   30 noor.nur noor.nur     1024 13. Nov 00:58 noor.nurani
| drwxr-xr-x   24 onlinest business     1024 12. Nov 21:31 onlinestore
| drwxr-xr-x   24 pascale. pascale.     1024 13. Nov 00:58 pascale.domeracki
| drwxr-xr-x   24 peer.jan peer.jan     1024 29. Jan 20:02 peer.janssen
| drwxr-xr-x   26 sandrine sandrine     1024 19. Jan 18:37 sandrine.dario
| drwxr-xr-x   37 tamay.do privat       1024 13. Nov 00:58 tamay.dogan
| drwxr-xr-x   28 zelie.do zelie.do     1024 13. Nov 00:58 zelie.domeracki
 \______________________________________________________________________

I have already patched "adduser" to allow the "." in Names.

So the "." should be allowed.

> greets,
> Wim

Greetings
Michelle

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