[wellylug] Usernames with a '.'

[David Antliff]

Mark Foster wrote:
> It did cause me the odd bit of grief due to things like chown and my 
> habit of using user.group notation

I had wondered why the user.group syntax for chown has been obsolete for 
a while now - I guess that's as good an explanation as any.

(my version of chown tells me not to use user.group but to use 
user:group instead)

-- 
David.