>From man chown:
GNU DETAILS
The GNU version allows a dot instead of a colon (following BSD). [This
was not allowed by POSIX since a dot is a valid character in a user
name.] If a colon or dot but no group name follows the user name, that
user is made the owner of the files and the group of the files is
changed to that user's login group. If the colon or dot and group are
given, but the user name is omitted, only the group of the files is
changed; in this case, chown performs the same function as chgrp.
So try using a colon?
Leendert
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:24:04 -0600
Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What could possibly be wrong here?
>
> # chown root.root *
> chown: `root.root': invalid user
>
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