dot allowed adduser/useradd

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:24:31 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Dots are at least forbidden charactes in usernames and groupnames as
> chown will fail with such names.

That I don't believe. chmod can do

  chown foo.bar:gfoo.gbar test

as well as

  chown foo.bar test

for user "foo.bar" out of group "gfoo.gbar".
 
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