On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:48, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> That's odd, I just got done installing a gentoo box a few days ago. chown -R $user.users work many times over when I was bringing my old home directories over... 
> 
> you sure that's a actual bug?? 

I personally can confirm this as well.
It does however depend on the POSIX standard the system is complying
too, which requires quite bleeding edge for this to occur.

none the less this should be addressed before it effects too many users,
and this is something I am looking into now.

> > You can read more here:
> > 
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30596

Regards

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