On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:47, Marvin Blackburn wrote: > I have a directory > 775 /u01/app/oracle/jomarmgr/jcust/users with jomarmgr:jomarmgr ownership. > a file exists in directory FILEA with with 644 jomarmgr:jomarmgr ownership. > > I try to change ownership from jomarmgr to perltest > I get "Operation not permitted". > > It turns out that it appears that root is the only user allowed to change > ownerships. > > I have tried putting the perltest user in the jomarmgr group and the > jomarmgr user in > the perl test group and reboot -- but this still doesnt work. > > Any ideas? > > ------------------ > Marvin Blackburn
I tested on my system running RH9.1 and this worked fine: whoami jonc su cd test touch y chown jonc y; chgrp dan y ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 jonc dan 0 Mar 18 12:36 y vi /etc/group dan:x:552:dan,jonc exit chgrp jonc y ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 jonc jonc 0 Mar 18 12:36 y chgrp dan y chgrp: changing group of `y': Operation not permitted ==== So you can gobble up files and give them your own group, but it looks like it won't let you change group to another user - even though you have rights to that users group. Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
