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change owner of a file
im running into changing the ownership of a file. I am trying to change the ownership to "system", but it doesn't want to work. I
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sudo chown system /preferences.plist Password: chown: system: Invalid argument Code:
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list attribute list (ls -al) should give you the permissions on the folder your attempting to change ownership
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hey cjajohnson
thanks for your help. I thought there was a "system" user because when i go to get info (im on a mac), it says "system" under owner when i ran the code "ls -l" on the file, it came up owned by root and not system. Shame on you apple for misleading me. thanks again cja |
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