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Jan Luca:
> When I run "chown commonshelper2 <FILE>" I get the error: "chown:
> changing ownership of `<FILE>': Operation not permitted".

under modern Unix systems, you cannot "give away" a file to another
user, because this was a common source of security issues.  instead,
just copy the file as the user "commonshelper2", and the new file will
be created with the desired ownership.

        - river.
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