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Date:      Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:02:06 -0400
From:      Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, romank@graphnet.com
Subject:   Re: Group ownership (WHY : or .)
Message-ID:  <35E2373E.F4757D70@aei.ca>
References:  <199808241539.IAA18194@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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David Wolfskill wrote:
> 
> >Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:51:01 -0400
> >From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
> 
> >I am writing a shell script to automate some procedures. I want this
> >shell to be executable by root only.
> 
> >One of the things it needs to do is create some directories. But I don't
> >want these directories to be owned by root/wheel. While I can do chown
> >whatever I want, I don't know how to change the fact that it's owned by
> >group wheel.
> 
> 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
> 
> david
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I was thinking it was newuser.newgroup and not newuser:newgroup.
Why there is both version?
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