Bug#488039: policy: chown uses owner:group not owner.group
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx writes ("Bug#488039: policy: chown uses owner:group not owner.group"):
> > There are several places in policy that use something like "root.root",
> > when talking about the owner and group of a file. People used to use
> > that notation to separate the owner and group, and it
> > still works, but the proper notation would be "root:root".
>
> What is wrong with <user>.<group> ? I see that it's not currently
> documented but it has worked forever and I hope it's not going away.
. can potentially be a character in a username or groupname. While
using . has worked for a long time, it should not be advocated in
policy, and portable scripts should not use it.
Don Armstrong
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