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funny you mention that because some of the files have numeric values as the owner! ... still, is there a way to assign the owner with a name containing a dot (.) like info.abc?

create a user like...

nope that didn't work - it's the first argument that's causing the problem

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chown user.123 user.123

[ 24 June 2002: Message edited by: matt syracuse ]

the command "chown user.123 user.123" doesn't work - it says 'invalid group' -- what was your syntax?

when you have 250 sites on a box (isn't Linux great) it makes it easier to find all the matching users by info.* ... any clues on how to chown with this type of name?

If I delete and re-create...

since the server can only have unique names, you can't have two info@ users on one box... so by making it unique such as info.abc and info.def, etc. the user can be aliased as 'info'.

when the...

how can you change ownership of a file if the username you want to use has dot (.) in it? ... such as info.abc

When I try this, chown gives an error, "no such group", because the dot signifies...