What do you get from the following commands?
You have to have write access to the directory and own the file to chown it. Unless you are root. That seems to be true in this case, but something is going on.
Last edited by radoulov; 12-20-2011 at 05:54 AM..
Reason: Code tags fixed.
im running into changing the ownership of a file. I am trying to change the ownership to "system", but it doesn't want to work. I
sudo chown system /preferences.plist
Password:
chown: system: Invalid argument
is there a way to read the ownership of a file, something like
read chown... (3 Replies)
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:
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hi,
how can I get the owner of the file ( not uid) on windows plaform.
"getpwuid" is not working on windows. I knw it works on unix.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
We have some files are under 744 permissions and the the owner is say owner1 and group1.
Now we have another user owner2 of group2, owner2 can remove files of the owner1 and the permission of those files are 744, unix admin told us he did some config at his side so we can do that.
... (14 Replies)
What i did:
- logged in with acc1 and created a new user acc2
commands used: useradd and passwd.
- Then i logged in acc2. but all the files are owned by acc1.
Issue: I try to change the owner of the files using chown command . But it gives me a error message.
All i want to do is... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I am logged in as super use and want to set owner of a root folder to a specific user.
#chown -R user1:group1 /u01
This gives the message:
chown: /u01: Read-only file system
chown: lost+found: Read-only file system
#ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Mar 21 16:42... (2 Replies)
i need to do the following operations in solaris 10:
1.change owner and group owner for files which are not owned by the current user and user group
2.to can delete files in the /tmp directory which are not of the current user
3. allow to a standard user the deletion of files in the /tmp... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Seeking for your assistance on how to log that has been chmod,mv,chown,chgrp and how to prevent script running while chmod,mv,chown,chgrp are still running?
Ex: a/b/c-folder
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
chmod 777 *
chown owner
owner group
mv
what i did was(please see... (6 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)
Discussion started by: gull05
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
chown
CHOWN(3) 1 CHOWN(3)chown - Changes file ownerSYNOPSIS
bool chown (string $filename, mixed $user)
DESCRIPTION
Attempts to change the owner of the file $filename to user $user. Only the superuser may change the owner of a file.
PARAMETERS
o $filename
- Path to the file.
o $user
- A user name or number.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Simple chown(3) usage
<?php
// File name and username to use
$file_name= "foo.php";
$path = "/home/sites/php.net/public_html/sandbox/" . $file_name ;
$user_name = "root";
// Set the user
chown($path, $user_name);
// Check the result
$stat = stat($path);
print_r(posix_getpwuid($stat['uid']));
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array
(
[name] => root
[passwd] => x
[uid] => 0
[gid] => 0
[gecos] => root
[dir] => /root
[shell] => /bin/bash
)
NOTES
Note
This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.
Note
When safe mode is enabled, PHP checks whether the files or directories being operated upon have the same UID (owner) as the script
that is being executed.
SEE ALSO chmod(3), chgrp(3).
PHP Documentation Group CHOWN(3)