Re: chown question

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Jc,

Oops, I shouldn't have answered so quickly. 

chown is interpreting the dot as a user.group specification. 

Using a colon and a group might work. 

Or you could write a simple C program that calls the chown system
call directly. 

I think this may be a  
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Don't do that." type situation.

Jake

--- Jean-Christian Imbeault <jean_christian@example.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do a chown on a set of files but it keeps complaining
> "invalid 
> user" ... strangely enough I was able to do a chgrp with all the same
> 
> arguments. I'm assuming it's because the name has a "." in it ...
> 
> Can anyone offer suggestion on how I might get this command to
> co-operate?
> 
> [root]# chown -R okubo.yoshiko top40
> chown: okubo.yoshiko: invalid user
> 
> But a cat of /etc/passwd show that there is such user ...
> 
> [root]# cat /etc/passwd | grep yoshiko
> okubo.yoshiko:x:507:507::/home/okubo.yoshiko:/bin/bash
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jc
>
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