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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...

awk '{sub(/^[ \t]*[[:alnum:]]+[ \t]*/,x)}1' file
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