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 > -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver at samera.com.py>