On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:24:31 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Dots are at least forbidden charactes in usernames and groupnames as > chown will fail with such names. That I don't believe. chmod can do chown foo.bar:gfoo.gbar test as well as chown foo.bar test for user "foo.bar" out of group "gfoo.gbar". --