[BusyBox 0000603]: chown does not allow changing group only

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Mon Jan 9 03:46:09 UTC 2006


The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=603 
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Reported By:                akvadrako
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   603
Category:                   Documentation
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   trivial
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             12-16-2005 14:42 PST
Last Modified:              01-08-2006 19:46 PST
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Summary:                    chown does not allow changing group only
Description: 
GNU chown allows running 'chown :group file' to mean 'chgrp group file'. 
BB does not allow that.  It would be trivial to add the support.  But at
least the documentation should change from:

Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.

to

Change the owner and possibly group of each FILE to owner and possibly
GROUP.
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 landley - 01-08-06 19:46  
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svn 13193 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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12-16-05 14:42  akvadrako      New Issue                                    
12-16-05 14:42  akvadrako      Status                   new => assigned     
12-16-05 14:42  akvadrako      Assigned To               => BusyBox         
01-08-06 19:46  landley        Status                   assigned => closed  
01-08-06 19:46  landley        Note Added: 0000878                          
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