In the last episode (May 12), Mark Murray said: > Bob K wrote: > > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is > > defined as follows: > > Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having > an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK.
but, from the chown manpage: COMPATIBILITY Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (`.') character to distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (`:') character so that user and group names may contain the dot character. So it sounds like the rest of the system is leaning toward allowing dots in usernames as well. -Dan Nelson dnel...@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message