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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.

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