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.
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
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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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.
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maybe 1000 lines
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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)
Discussion started by: gull05
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
chown
CHOWN(8) BSD System Manager's Manual CHOWN(8)NAME
chown -- change file owner and group
SYNOPSIS
chown [-fhvx] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...
chown [-fhvx] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...
DESCRIPTION
The chown utility changes the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files. Symbolic links named by arguments are silently left
unchanged unless -h is used.
The options are as follows:
-H If the -R option is specified, symbolic links on the command line are followed. (Symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal
are not followed.)
-L If the -R option is specified, all symbolic links are followed.
-P If the -R option is specified, no symbolic links are followed. This is the default.
-R Change the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified directory trees (recursively, including their contents) and files. Beware of
unintentionally matching the ``..'' hard link to the parent directory when using wildcards like ``.*''.
-f Do not report any failure to change file owner or group, nor modify the exit status to reflect such failures.
-h If the file is a symbolic link, change the user ID and/or the group ID of the link itself.
-v Cause chown to be verbose, showing files as the owner is modified. If the -v flag is specified more than once, chown will print the
filename, followed by the old and new numeric user/group ID.
-x File system mount points are not traversed.
The -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified. In addition, these options override each other and the command's
actions are determined by the last one specified.
The owner and group operands are both optional, however, one must be specified. If the group operand is specified, it must be preceded by a
colon (``:'') character.
The owner may be either a numeric user ID or a user name. If a user name is also a numeric user ID, the operand is used as a user name. The
group may be either a numeric group ID or a group name. If a group name is also a numeric group ID, the operand is used as a group name.
The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for obvious security reasons.
EXIT STATUS
The chown utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon
(``:'') character so that user and group names may contain the dot character.
On previous versions of this system, symbolic links did not have owners.
The -v and -x options are non-standard and their use in scripts is not recommended.
SEE ALSO chgrp(1), find(1), chown(2), fts(3), symlink(7)STANDARDS
The chown utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compliant.
HISTORY
A chown utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
BSD February 21, 2010 BSD