Re: [cobalt-users] valid user name for chmod

[Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>and the site in question, has an admin user 'snc.admin'
>my telnet won't give that user the files....
>[root@nogbad web]# chown snc.admin /*/swf/*
>chown: snc.admin: invalid user

it is true : a valid Unix username can not contain a dot.

>if I ls -l files the user already owns, they are reported as 
>belonging to 'snc.admi'
>I cannot give that user the files either (just in cast it was not 
>just a display truncate.

You might want to check your /etc/passwd file, and look to the real 
username of that admin. You might also want to look at his uid, and 
use the numeric uid for the chown command.

Hope that helps,

Fabrice Prémel.