Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:41:35 -0500, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:16:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>>[^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] is found 829
>>times in Debian, mostly in docs and comments, but also in a few live
>>scripts. I think that we still have some way to go until we get rid of
>>the dot notation in chown calls.
>
>It also has to be a variable; if it's "root.root" or such, it doesn't
>matter.
It matters if coreutils will at some time remove the dot notation,
making chown root.root an error. And I surely hope that this is the
end of the road we're progressing on.
>And remember, there are existing real-world debian systems that have
>users with dots (regardless of local adduser policy; think ldap/ad for
>example) so these are already issues that either need to be fixed or
>don't really matter.
Yes, they need to be fixed, but it's a different can of beer if we
cannot say "hey, you changed our default, so you get to keep the
pieces of what got broken" but have to say "oops".
Greetings
Marc
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