7 Aug
2003
7 Aug
'03
10:12 a.m.
On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 7:59 am, you wrote:
If we use dots in our usernames then how will we execute the command "chown username.groupname filename" ??
Can't this be achieved by doing username:groupname filename?
Absolutely !! Thanks for pointing it out :-)
To test it I added a user "kapilkarekar". Then I manually edited the files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. In these files I changed "kapilkarekar" to "kapil.karekar". It works !!
Checkout /etc/sbin/adduser ... check the regular expressions which handle username validations :-)
Regards, Kapil Karekar