From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Tromey To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Michael Ring's identity Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 Message-id: <200004271722.KAA20967@ferrule.cygnus.com> References: <200004271702.KAA20955@ferrule.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00432.html >> chown doesn't like having a "." in the user name. Lame. Gerald> Have you tried adding a colon after the user name or Gerald> specifying both user name and group? For now I'm leaving the create-user script as-is. I sent a bug report, and Jim tells me it is fixed in fileutils 4.0q. So someday it will work on sourceware. Tom From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Tromey To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Michael Ring's identity Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200004271722.KAA20967@ferrule.cygnus.com> References: <200004271702.KAA20955@ferrule.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00125.html Message-ID: <20000427102200.o49AVu5-ZW65Ud9hdfBslCM_1n0AIN3VFE5hUO_Ll94@z> >> chown doesn't like having a "." in the user name. Lame. Gerald> Have you tried adding a colon after the user name or Gerald> specifying both user name and group? For now I'm leaving the create-user script as-is. I sent a bug report, and Jim tells me it is fixed in fileutils 4.0q. So someday it will work on sourceware. Tom