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Re: About valid and invalid user names



On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 16:39 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> IMHO even the dot is, eh, difficult. Consider a chown user.group file.

if (no_such_username)
{
chown();
chgrp();
}
else
{
chown();
}

If there is such an username and the user meant to change both user and
group, it's his own fault for not using the user:group notation. chown
could print a warning when the dot notation is used.


--
Petri Latvala

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