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Old 09-27-2005
changing owner & grp of a file
Hi,

I have a file in my system as below

My user and grp id is sns / sns

-rwxrwxrwx 1 sns sns 6012357 Sep 27 06:01 sample

Is there a way to change the owner and grp of this file to app / app ... ie. as given below

-rwxrwxrwx 1 app app 6012357 Sep 27 06:01 sample

I guessed tht since I am the owner of the file, I cud do this ... and tried chown and chgrp but its not done ....

Can anyone tell me what more permission i need and how can i get this done ??

Thanks in advance,

SNS
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Old 09-27-2005
In many versions of unix, a user cannot chown a file. In some versions of unix, root can grant that power to a specific user. In some versions of unix, root can can globally allow all users to have that power. Apparantly, you are using a version of unix where a non-root user cannot chown. So you will need some help from root.

And next time, tell us what version of unix you are using. That way, you can get a more specific response.
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