Re: [cpx] [CPX] - serious issue in handling of the users

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Bill Meier wrote:
> I had the same problem... made
> 	bill.meier
> 
> as a user name. I think the issue I saw was
> 
> 
> ~> chown bill.meier foo
> chown: separation of user and group with a period is deprecated
> chown: meier: illegal group name

Wrong syntax for period-in-username. Try:

  chown bill.meier: foo

For group chown:

  chown :bill.meier foo

or both:

  chown bill.meier:bill.meier foo

Scott
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