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# 8  
Old 04-27-2005
are you the current owner of the directory? if not, you cannot assign a new owner to it because it does not belong to you ... have the directory's owner or a root user do the chown and it should work ...
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Originally Posted by SSteve
from man chown (on an HP system):

In order to change the owner or group, you must own the file and have the CHOWN privilege (see setprivgrp(1M)).
# 9  
Old 04-27-2005
I am logged in as the LEAD owner and trying to change the ownership to SUBLEAD.

Thanks..
# 10  
Old 04-27-2005
who owns test.lck?
# 11  
Old 04-27-2005
LEAD owns it and now I want to assign it to SUBLEAD. I am logged in a LEAD.
# 12  
Old 04-27-2005
try chowning a test file in the /tmp directory that lead created and see if that works ... if not, you have a system problem ... if yes, check to make sure that the file/directory you need to modify are not on a read-only filesystem ...
# 13  
Old 04-28-2005
Try the "getprivgrp" command and see if you have the CHOWN privilege (or if it is allowed globally).
# 14  
Old 04-28-2005
SSteve has a valid point. Most versions of unix prohibit ordinary users from invoking chown as default behavior. This is because disk quotas can be defeated if users can give away files. But getprivgroup is HP-UX specific. As SSteve mentioned see your man page on chown. You may need to look at both man pages... for the system call chown and the command chown.
 
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