Hi Etika, Please provide output of:
id -a abc Thanks, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:52 AM, etika ahuja <[email protected]> wrote: > these are the details of etika.sh > -rw-rw-r--. 1 etika etika 83 2011-04-10 12:05 etika.sh > > contents of etika.sh > chown abc:abc /home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt > ls -l /home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt > > details of etika.txt file > -rwxrwxrwx. 1 etika etika 83 2011-04-10 12:04 etika.txt > > i have made etika as sudoers > > now i ran my script > etika@etika Desktop]$ sh etika.sh > chown: changing ownership of `/home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt': Operation not > permitted > -rwxrwxrwx. 1 etika etika 83 2011-04-10 12:04 /home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt > > i wanted this to happen where abc is also a user on my system > -rwxrwxrwx. 1 abc abc 83 2011-04-10 12:04 /home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt > > why its saying operation not permitted i have made etika as a sudoer then > why still it is showing problem > > > > even i tried by changing the ownership of etika.sh to root > > [etika@etika Desktop]$ sudo chown root:root etika.sh > [sudo] password for etika: > [etika@etika Desktop]$ ls -l etika.sh > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 83 2011-04-10 12:05 etika.sh > [etika@etika Desktop]$ sh etika.sh > chown: changing ownership of `/home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt': Operation not > permitted > -rwxrwxrwx. 1 etika etika 83 2011-04-10 12:04 /home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt > > still there is a problem > > > i hope i have stated my problem clearly now and if u think its a newbie > question please don't answer it > > -- > LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
