03-14-2013
If you inspect the chown source, you'll see that it uses getpwnam(3) to convert the username to a uid. That function reads the binary database files /etc/spwd.db and /etc/pwd.db. Did you rebuild those? If you don't know what I'm talking about, refer to man pwd_mkdb.
It's safest to make edits to the password files using vipw. As always, if you break it, you get to keep all the pieces.
Regards,
Alister
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