Stupid Ubuntu 8.10

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 09:20 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> But if troubleshooting a problem regarding permissions,
>> ownership etc (such as this thread), I'd recommend _only_ using the
>> methods and examples listed in 'man chown'.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, I've used the dot notation for a decade and
> never noticed that the manpage specifies the colon. NEvertheless, I
> never had problem with it.

Ditto.  The man page needs to be fixed, not users' actions and expectations. 
This is _not_ something that can be just deprecated.
-- 
derek