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
$Date: 2007/01/13 10:35:39 $ LFC-CHGRP(1)