Userid/passwords

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,
>>>  [ SuS says dots are OK in user names ]
>>  [ chown doesn't like dots ]
>  That's why chown foo:bar FILE is the preferred syntax and foo.bar is only a
>  deprecated extension for compatibility with older scripts.
>
Unfortunately, GNU fileutils doesn't accept dots in user names, and 
the manpage (which arguably shouldn't be used when Info files exist) 
doesn't document colons.

Cc to bug-fileutils@gnu.org.
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Matthias Urlichs