Changing ownership of user with . in their name 1

[rilango]

How do you change the ownership status of a file where user has a name such as "name.org"

Thanks for the help.

Regards
linila

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

One obvious way would be to get the (numeric) uid of the user from 'cat /etc/passwd' and use that in the chown command - e.g.

chown 501 somefile

(where 501 is the uid to change ownership to)

Regards