On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Tony Campisi wrote:
! [root@mail2 /home/al.koch]# chown -R al.koch /home/al.koch/Maildir
! chown: al.koch: invalid user
Try chown -R al.koch: /home/al.koch/Maildir
^--- colon there
It may or may not work. Colon is now the preferred separator between
user and group, but historically the dot has been used for that, and
so it's still supported for compatibility.
What operating system do you use? If it's free software, I can look
at the source code and see whether the above works...
---Chris K.
--
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