>Number:         10043
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       chown: '.' not supported in username
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 04 06:36:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paolo Torelli
>Release:        i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD localhost 1.4.2 NetBSD 1.4.2 (EOS_ATH) #4: Wed May  3 18:15:24 CEST 2000
    root@/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/EOS_ATH i386

>Description:
if there's a user whose name is eg: x.y, chown x.y:mygroup anything gives the answer:
"chown x:mygroup: invalid group name"
>How-To-Repeat:
create any user with a dot in its username
try to chown any file to him
read the message

>Fix:
do not use dots in usernames?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: