Dear Stenny,
You are typing the syntax for chown incorrectly.
It goes like this... chown user[.group] filename
So in your case you want to do
chown user ftp
NOT chown ftp user
Hope this helps,
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Ben Kennish
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> Dear,
>
> Don't know whether someone have already ask this question, if yes please
>tell where to find more information.
>
> I've login to a vs with admin user, and try to change owner of a file which
>own by admin to ftp, but it return chown: ftp : operation not permitted.
>
> Isn't it admin user can change any file which within the uid-gid range of
>the vs?
>
> Thanks you.
>
> Stenny
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