Re: [cpx] [CPX] - serious issue in handling of the users

[ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Meier wrote:

> I had the same problem... made
>     bill.meier
>
> as a user name. I think the issue I saw was
>
>
> ~> chown bill.meier foo
> chown: separation of user and group with a period is deprecated
> chown: meier: illegal group name
>
>
> That was enough to realize that if that problem existed, other 
> programs would probably treat it wrong, so I switched to    
>     bill_meier
>
> as user names and had no problems... May not be the same issue you saw 
> with CPX but obviously pieces of Unix don't like the dot...
>
> Bill.Meier ;-) 

i hope this is not this, allways use the uid or gid in script as if not 
you stumble on this.

very good  idea to say it there as the Dev team perhaps use the username 
in their internal works !!

Ghislain.


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