[CentOS] Using long usernames with dots in LDAP

This way it worked fine:
chown -v "this.is.avery.long.username":"this.is.avery.long.username" 
/tmp/test1

HTH
Oliver

Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
>
> Notes:
> if I pass the username and group to chown, it fails. I have to use 
> like this:
> # touch /tmp/test1
> # chown root.root /tmp/test1
> # chown -v this.is.avery.long.username /tmp/test1
> # chgrp -v this.is.avery.long.username /tmp/test1
>
> Thanks for the comments,
> Oliver
>
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