just stumbled over this, too.
'info chown' suggests, this should still work.
--- 8< ---
OWNER‘:’
If a colon but no group name follows OWNER, that user is made the
owner of the files and the group of the files is changed to OWNER's
login group.
--- 8< ---
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2154013
Title:
"sudo chown root: /some/dir" no longer updates the group.
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils/+bug/2154013/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
