[COMP] chown problem- created directory owned by root that user has no permissions for

I hope you guys/gals can help me with this:

I used SCP to create a directory within the cgi-bin of a user.
I was logged in as root at the time.
The user does not have chmod permissions on that subdirectory in it's
cgi-bin.
The user does have chmod permissions on all of it's
directories except the one that root created.

I was told by my server's admin people to do this:
cd ~myuser
chown -R myuser.myuser

it didn't work, I get this:

[root@server /root]# cd ~myuser
[root@server myuser]# chown -R myuser.myuser
chown: too few arguments
Try `chown --help' for more information.

what arguments do I need to get this to work?

thanks
David Bruce Jr

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