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chown USER: does not change group to user's login group #12751

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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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