"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> > There are other places this should be done, like newsyslog and inetd. Maybe
> > a function in libutil would be a good thing.
> 
> I don't understand the suggestion. 

I'd want to see behaviour like chown. Failing that (for example if '.' is not
allowed) a function like that is handy.

> All that is needed in those other places is to deal with . in a username
> -- only chown has this "two different kind of separators" problem...

That's not so.

Andy