Re: chown problem (fileutil-4.0)

[Jim Meyering]

"Daniel Chabrol" <address@hidden> wrote:
| We use usernames like domain.com for our customers. Everything works fine
| expect the chown tool. If I try to chown a file it looks like:
|
| mail:~ # chown webonomics.de 123
| chown: webonomics.de: invalid user
|
| If I use the numeric UID it works. I suppose it is not a problem with the
| nameservices because finger, pop3, login etc. works. What can we do to?

Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.32.tar.gz

Here's the relevant NEWS entry:

[4.0q]
...
* chown now works properly when the specified login name contains a period
  This is at the expense of always looking up the entire USER.GROUP string
  as a login name first, and only then (upon failure) interpreting the `.'
  as a separator and looking up `USER'.  To avoid the extra getpwnam call,
  always use the POSIX-mandated `:' character as the separator.