The y/n question is more about permissions than about ownership. If you have write permissions to the directory, you can delete it. If the file doesn't belong to you, or it doesn't have write permissions for you, then it will ask.
hello
chown not change ownership
before:
205:system ~kuku
chown kuku:system ~kuku
after no change
205:system ~kuku
aix box
can someone help me?
ariec (2 Replies)
I have a strange problem in my Linux box (Suse). Recently I took over this box as admin even though I have no prior admin experience. Following is my issue
I had following users under 'root' group initially
user1
user2
user3
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hello
i want shell script.
i have a source.txt
/home/user409/public_html/test/
/home/user09876/public_html/xdsss/
/home/user9765/public_html/320xxx/
.
.
.
maybe 1000 lines
i want .
1.read a source.txt
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I am trying to change the directory to owner of Sybase. But I get permission denied. I did login as root.
newd1> ls -l
total 58
drwxr-xr-x 2 prod develop 5 Oct 17 06:51 bin
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dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1... (15 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to change the home directory ownership of a user from "skel" to user himself,
drwxr-xr-x 4 skel aldo 4096 May 26 09:47 dosatc
But when i do that i get an error stating,
# chown -R dosatc /msdhome/dosatc
#chown: getcwd: Too many open files
Please guide me... (3 Replies)