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Date:      Sat, 31 May 2003 21:27:03 MSD 
From:      DoubleF <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        alex@gutza36.de
Subject:   gdm2-2.4.1.3
Message-ID:  <20030531172948.97102.qmail@mx.tele-kom.ru>

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> hi, 

Hello,

> /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root  gdm     512 May 29 18:47 gdm
> 
> gdm.conf in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  gdm    2628 May 31 10:20 gdm.conf
> 
> #chown gdm .keep_me
> chown: gdm: illegal user name
> _____________________________
> 
> what am i doing wrong?!

The correct command to set user to nobody and group to gdm would be

# chown nobody:gdm .keep_me

What your command does is to set user to gdm (which is nonexistent) and
leave group as it is.

HTH,
				DoubleF



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