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Operating Systems Solaris Owner of file gets 'not owner' error for chgrp Post 302151659 by brizrobbo on Sunday 16th of December 2007 10:30:11 PM
Old 12-16-2007
Owner of file gets 'not owner' error for chgrp
Hi Folks,

I know that changing users and groups is pretty basic admin, but this one has got me stumped. When I try to change the group of a file for which I am the owner for, it still gives me a 'Not owner' error.

For example, when I am logged in as 'webadmin', I have the following file:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 webadmin other 0 Dec 17 12:00 zzz_info.php

I want to change group from other to www, so I run:

chgrp www zzz_info.php

I get this error:

chgrp: changing group of `zzz_info.php': Not owner

I have read somewhere that "More recent versions" of solaris only enable root to change permissions by default, but as per instructions I have gone and set "set rstchown=1" in /etc/system.

This is something I've never dealt with before, so any help would be appreciated.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

lfc-chgrp

LFC-CHGRP(1)							 LFC User Commands						      LFC-CHGRP(1)

NAME

       lfc-chgrp - change group ownership of a LFC directory/file in the name server

SYNOPSIS

       lfc-chgrp [-h] [-R] group path...

DESCRIPTION

       lfc-chgrp sets the group ownership of a LFC directory/file in the name server to the value of group.

       To  change  the group ID, the effective user ID of the process must match the owner ID of the file and the new group must be in the list of
       groups the caller belong to or the caller must have ADMIN privilege in the Cupv database.

       group  is either a valid group name or a valid numeric ID.

       path   specifies the LFC pathname.  If path does not start with /, it is prefixed by the content of the LFC_HOME environment variable.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -h     If path is a symbolic link, changes the ownership of the link itself.

       -R     Recursive mode.

EXIT STATUS

       This program returns 0 if the operation was successful or >0 if the operation failed.

SEE ALSO

       Castor_limits(4), lfc_chown(3), Cupvlist(1)

AUTHOR

       LCG Grid Deployment Team

LFC
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