Damion,
hmm - older thread, but I have the same problem now.
The admin seems to have no rights to change ownership of user files.
Your test below is not replicable - I also get the problem of stenny.
vsd 1.4.6 (from source)
rh7.0
no problems on installation
[admin@linux11 bin]$ ll | grep chown
-rwxr-xr-x 10 root root 19412 Jan 29 15:43 chown*
[admin@linux11 /]$ chown --version
chown (GNU fileutils) 4.0p
Written by David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
What could be the problem??
many thanks in advance!
jimmy
am [Wed, 02 May 2001 16:53:30 +0100] schrieb Damion Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> Hello,
>
> I've just tried to replicate you're problem, but have had no joy:
>
> [admin@vsone ftp]$ ls -l
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 2 11:15 incoming
> [admin@vsone ftp]$ chown admin incoming/
> [admin@vsone ftp]$ ls -l
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 admin ftp 4096 May 2 11:15 incoming
> [admin@vsone ftp]$ chown ftp incoming/
> [admin@vsone ftp]$ ls -l
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 2 11:15 incoming
> [admin@vsone ftp]$
>
> There may be some problems with the packages installed into you're skel.
>
> Damion.
>
>
> Stenny wrote:
> >
> > Dear Ben��
> >
> > I know that I did type the syntax correctly, chown ftp filename,
>the file I want to change ownership which own by admin, but now I want it own by ftp,
>so I type.
> >
> > chown ftp filename
> >
> > But it return operation not permitted. Is it VS's admin user
>cannot change any file's ownership?
> >
> > Thanks you.
> >
> > Stenny.
> >
> >
> >
> > �� 2001-05-02 15:00:00 �����
> > >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,
> > >
> > >---
> > >Ben Kennish
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >.
> >
> > ��
> > ��
> >
> > Stenny
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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