chown USER: does not change group to user's login group
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Description
On Ubuntu with uutils coreutils 0.8.0, chown USER: FILE changes the owner but does not change the group to USER's login group.
GNU coreutils behavior and the documented chown semantics are that chown USER: FILE, with a colon but no explicit group, should change the group to USER's login group. chown USER FILE should leave the group unchanged.
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Research direction
Start at the chown command's handling of a user followed by a trailing colon, and compare it with the no-colon form. Reproduce both chown USER: FILE and chown USER FILE on Ubuntu; done means the first updates the group to USER's login group while the second leaves the group unchanged.
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- Tech stack
- rust
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- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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