I have a problem something similar to this. I copied a directory from one of my fellow users belonging to the same user group to my home path. I still the see the actual owner's name. How do I make myself the owner of the directory that is copied to my directory. I used chown and it doesn't work.
Code:
drwxr-xr-x 8 user1 usergrp 1024 Jan 14 13:53 Financials
I have copied the directory Financials to my home directory. Now I need to change the owner from user1 to user2 (my user id). When I use "chown" it is throwing an error
Code:
chown user2 Financials
chown: Financials: Not owner
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I even asked user1 to issue the command chown and even he gets the same message that he is not a owner. It is weird.
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?
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explain_chown_or_die
explain_chown_or_die(3) Library Functions Manual explain_chown_or_die(3)NAME
explain_chown_or_die - change ownership of a file and report errors
SYNOPSIS
#include <libexplain/chown.h>
void explain_chown_or_die(const char *pathname, int owner, int group);
DESCRIPTION
The explain_chown_or_die function is used to call the chown(2) system call. On failure an explanation will be printed to stderr, obtained
from explain_chown(3), and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
This function is intended to be used in a fashion similar to the following example:
explain_chown_or_die(pathname, owner, group);
pathname
The pathname, exactly as to be passed to the chown(2) system call.
owner The owner, exactly as to be passed to the chown(2) system call.
group The group, exactly as to be passed to the chown(2) system call.
Returns:
This function only returns on success. On failure, prints an explanation and exits.
SEE ALSO chown(2)
change ownership of a file
explain_chown(3)
explain chown(2) errors
exit(2) terminate the calling process
COPYRIGHT
libexplain version 0.52
Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller
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