Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:42:33 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Group ownership (WHY : or .) Message-ID: <199808251442.HAA22599@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <35E2373E.F4757D70@aei.ca>
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>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:02:06 -0400 >From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> >David Wolfskill wrote: >> Either use "chgrp" to change the group (which is portable across >> UNIX-like implementations) or use the "user:group" notation as the first >> argument to "chown", such as >> chown newuser:newgroup file0 file1 file2 ... fileN >I was thinking it was newuser.newgroup and not newuser:newgroup. A (minor) correction to my earlier note: either chown newuser:newgroup file0 file1 file2 ... fileN or chown newuser.newgroup file0 file1 file2 ... fileN does, in fact, work. Before responding, I had checked the man page for chown, which specifies the "newuser:newgroup" syntax. Although the "newuser.newgroup" syntax was one I had used previously (on SunOS systems), I didn't try it, since the man page specified otherwise. >Why there is both version? I suspect that's a question with an answer based in history.... david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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