chown 5.0.91 bug.

2003-12-05 Thread Dylan Shell
i've compiled chown on a gentoo gnu/linux system, the program reports its version as 5.0.91. it seems to no longer accept a user followed by a group with a separator as a full-stop (the colon works fine). this means I get: # chown root. * chown: `root.': invalid user # chown root.audio * chown: `r

chown 5.0.91 bug, regarding "." and ":"

2003-12-06 Thread Dylan Shell
i've compiled chown on a gentoo gnu/linux system, the program reports its version as 5.0.91. it seems to no longer accept a user followed by a group with a separator as a full-stop (the colon works fine). this means I get: # chown root. * chown: `root.': invalid user # chown root.audio * chown: `r