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Old 12-02-2004
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Angry Chown problem
I am trying to change ownership of a file that I own by using the following command:

chown norfoklm norfolk


norfoklm is the user I am trying to change it to and norfolk is the name of the directory

The error I keep getting is:

chown: norfolk: Not owner

This is on a SUN unix box if that makes any difference.

HELP!
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What is the output of "ls -ld norfolk"? Are you the user specified in the third column of the output?

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Re: Chown problem
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Originally posted by tonydsam
This is on a SUN unix box if that makes any difference.

It's always a good idea to mention the OS.

Like many versions of Unix, SunOS prevents non-root users from giving away files. If users can give away files, quotas are defeated.

From the SunOS chown(2) man page:
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When {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} is in effect (the default behavior), the chown(), lchown(), and fchown() functions, for users other than super-user, prevent the owner of the file from changing the owner ID of the file and restrict the change of the group of the file to the list of supplementary group IDs.
This can be changed system-wide by reconfiguring the kernel. See the chown(2) man page for details.
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Thanks everyone. I have got around the problem by changing the directory permissions so that any users can create files and then I have logged in as the other user and created the files. Thanks for the info though.
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