[Eug-lug] Correct Apache User and Group for easy editing
Martin Kelly
aomighty at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 13:43:05 PDT 2006
Alright, good to know; thanks. I will use : then.
Bob Miller wrote:
> Martin Kelly wrote:
>
>> Secondly, in:
>> chown kedwardk.kedwardk ed
>> Is there a difference between . and : in that? Would this have been
>> equivalent?
>> chown kedwardk:kedwardk ed
>
> Dot is deprecated by POSIX. But chown still supports dot as well as
> colon. Here's an excerpt from the chown info page.
>
> Some older scripts may still use `.' in place of the `:'
> separator. POSIX 1003.1-2001 (*note Standards conformance::) does
> not require support for that, but for backward compatibility GNU
> `chown' supports `.' so long as no ambiguity results. New scripts
> should avoid the use of `.' because it is not portable, and
> because it has undesirable results if the entire OWNER`.'GROUP
> happens to identify a user whose name contains `.'.
>
> Similarly, in the ssh port-forwarding arguments
>
> ssh -L 80:localhost:80 ...
>
> colon is deprecated in favor of slash. Colon is a component
> of IPv6 addresses.
>
> ssh -L 80/::1/80 ...
>
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