No... Jim's solution is quite clear only owner has the rights to write in the directory.
Perhaps the only workaround would be using NOT the ownership but the group:
You are the owner and your create a group called bb (in /etc/group...)
You change groupownership using chgrp to your directory
Now the trick is:
To write in AA you would have to be in group bb, whatever is put AA, the group will be bb
I'm trying to make a backup of a directory tree on Solaris 8. I'm doing this with my own ID, not root. The problem I am running into is when I extract the archive, all files are owned by me and the group is my default group. The man page lists this as the default behavior when executed by a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
While changing ownerships from the root on a server i'm managing, i typed chown -R username:users * and it changed all ownership to username. Can someone tell me if there is someway I can set things back the way they were before? I can't even su username from the root. Am I going to just... (4 Replies)
I'm looking for a way to create preprocessed .gz files of static pages to serve up to those browsers that can accept them.
I know I can use:
gzip -c --best index.html > index.html.gz
to create the .gz file _and_ keep the original.
What's the proper command line way to run that on each... (2 Replies)
I want to copy a file from another user to my owner directory, and want to change the ownership to my account.
in jung's directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jung smart 23 Dec 1 2005 .runme
cp /home/jung/runme .
under my directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jung smart 23 Dec 1... (1 Reply)
Hi,
When I do the ls-ld command for example like this:
# ls -ld /Applications
I get an output like this:
drwxrwxr-x+ 114 root admin 3876 18 Aug 14:04 /Applications
I need to somehow use sed to put the ownership into a format like this:
root:admin
So basically remove... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script which transfers files/directories from one HP unix to another HP unix server using SCP but i need to retain ownership of files/folders same as source server my script is as follows
cd /sasdata/TR_CNTO328/C0328T07/Dry_Run_1/Macros
find . -type d -newer . -exec scp -pr {}... (6 Replies)
I want to change the ownership of a directory ONLY.
my id
id1 owns the files under the /mypath/bin
but /mypath/bin is owned by id2
If i log into id2
I can't do
chown id1 /mypath/bin (1 Reply)
I have 2 Linux servers and 1 windows server. One Linux server has an NSF share which points to the windows server. The other Linux server rsyncs any data to the other Linux server containing the windows share. My issue is that everytime the Linux administrator rsync data to the linux server... (12 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
chown
chown(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands chown(1B)NAME
chown - change owner
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/chown [-fR] owner[.group] filename...
DESCRIPTION
chown changes the owner of the filenames to owner. The owner can be either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found in the password
file. An optional group can also be specified. The group can be either a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID file.
In the default case, only the super-user of the machine where the file is physically located can change the owner. The system configura-
tion option {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} and the privileges PRIV_FILE_CHOWN and PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF also affect who can change the ownership
of a file. See chown(2) and privileges(5).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f Do not report errors.
-R Recursively descend into directories setting the ownership of all files in each directory encountered. When symbolic links are
encountered, their ownership is changed, but they are not traversed.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of chown when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
FILES
/etc/passwd Password file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5), largefile(5), privileges(5)SunOS 5.11 21 Jun 2004 chown(1B)