Funny. I recently ran into an issue where someone ran chown -R 1000:999. Took a while to hunt down. One of our servers had a user and group with those ids. The other, well... did not. It had the same user and group names though. Chowned that bad boy by name and the permission issues just disappeared. Why anyone thought that it was a good idea to use a numeric id is beyond me. I'll second the use of the -u userName flag though. It's a lifesaver.
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Funny. I recently ran into an issue where someone ran chown -R 1000:999. Took a while to hunt down. One of our servers had a user and group with those ids. The other, well... did not. It had the same user and group names though. Chowned that bad boy by name and the permission issues just disappeared. Why anyone thought that it was a good idea to use a numeric id is beyond me. I'll second the use of the
-u userNameflag though. It's a lifesaver.