Re: chown question

[Kei Furuuchi <kfur@example.com>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:37:09AM -0000, Jean-Christian Imbeault 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

colon or dot interpret okubo is user and yoshiko is group.
Single quote the line?

Kei.

> 
> 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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