From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Michael Ring's identity
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:16:00 -0000
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004271914250.25376-100000@nunki.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <200004271702.KAA20955@ferrule.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00124.html
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:
> chown doesn't like having a "." in the user name.  Lame.

Have you tried adding a colon after the user name or specifying both
user name and group?

FreeBSD at least supports the dot as a separator between user name and
group for backwards compatibility:

  deneb[91]:~% chown a.b /dev/null
  chown: b: illegal group name

  deneb[92]:~% chown a.b: /dev/null
  chown: a.b: illegal user name

Gerald
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