Uttered Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong@xxxxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > However I have read some suggest "."'s in the name may be a very bad > thing. One example was the chown command, on some systems you could have > a user named John, and Group name Smith, and another user John.Smith. The chown form "name.group" is now deprecated. The preferred form is now "name:group". I believe this change is part of the move to UTF-8 compliance but that's a dim recollection.
