This is best email from long time where OP has written full query, everybody must follow such style. comments inline
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, 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 Etika is Sudo User but you are not doing sudo operations, Two way to solve your problem ========== Fist way ========= contents of etika.sh sudo chown abc:abc /home/etika/Desktop/etika.txt If you add sudo in command then it will run as root user, ========== second way ========= you can execute using sudo command sudo bash etika.sh -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
