You need to be root to do that. One user cannot change file ownerships to another user.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: chown problems I'm trying to change the ownership of a file that I as user "oracle" own to user "u55646" the following occurs -rw-r--r-- 1 u55646 dba 583 2003-09-18 13:01 rfc1953.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle oinstall 418 2003-09-18 12:55 rfc1953.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 583 2003-09-18 13:01 rfc1954.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle oinstall 412 2003-09-18 12:55 rfc1954.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 5208 2003-09-18 13:01 rfc1956.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle oinstall 415 2003-09-18 12:56 rfc1956.sql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dbatemp/rfcs/KDV1> chown u55646.dba rfc1953.sql chown: changing ownership of `rfc1953.sql': Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dbatemp/rfcs/KDV1>
