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Subject: Re: chown problem From: Ryan Butler <rbutler@saelack.iavalley.cc.ia.us> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 09:29:13 -0500 (CDT) On Sun, 23 May 1999, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > Hmm.. Not a very good idea. chown is thinking when you use a dot in the name, > the part behind the dot is the group name. > > >chown paul.mezzanini:root a-file > >will make "a-file" owned by paul.mezzanini and group root > > >> > >> Usernames containing a period (.) will not work with chown. > >> The command > >> chown foo.bar xxxx > >> Trys to change file xxxx to owner foo and group bar. > >> > >> man chown > >> > >> I suggest you should not allow . in usernames. If you use numbers it works fine, All our ppp accounts are xxx.ppp and if you do a chown 502.502 blah then it will work correctly. =======