Re: Username with period

[Jim Meyering]

"Andrew Chan" <address@hidden> wrote:
| Really sorry to disturb u. I want to change a file's owner to
| andrew.chan. But if I type chown andrew.chan abc, it will recogize the
| user as andrew and group as chan since there is a period between the name
| and the firstname. Since chown delimits user and group using periods,
| how do I put a username with a period in between?

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

It has been fixed since fileutils-4.0r.