When using "find -user" and "chown", you have to beware of symlinks. The find will find symlinks owned by that user, but chown will change the ownership of the file pointed to, not the symlink itself. When fixing up file ownerships like this, it's better to use chown -h
Strangely, chown and chmod don't seem to work on symlinks. In particular, I tried this (as root):
# touch foo
# ln -s foo mysymlink
# chown SOMEUSER mysymlink
as well as changing the last line to:
# chown -h someuser mysymlink
where "-h" is supposed to change the UID of the actualy... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file in my system as below
My user and grp id is sns / sns
-rwxrwxrwx 1 sns sns 6012357 Sep 27 06:01 sample
Is there a way to change the owner and grp of this file to app / app ... ie. as given below
-rwxrwxrwx 1 app app 6012357 Sep 27 06:01 sample
I guessed... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I own a file, when i try to change the owner of my file to other user it is throwing error like
chown: changing ownership of `a.txt': Not owner
my OS is sunOS 5.8
Thanks. (1 Reply)
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:
... (4 Replies)
hai,
I am new to Unix, I have a requirement to display owner name , directory or sub directory name, who's owner name is not equal to "oasitqtc".
(here "oasitqtc" is the owner of the directory or sub directory.)
i have a command (below) which will display all folders and sub folders, but i... (6 Replies)
Would the owner as listed , be the one who made the directory in the first place. when any one could use chown in a script.
I do not know where this directory came form or who made it. And am attempting to just find out more info on it.
what could i use to find its origins and its why does it... (3 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.
My example:
I have a filesystem /log. Everyday, log files are copied to /log. I'd like to set owner and permission for files and directories in /log like that
chown -R log_adm /log/*
chmod -R 544 /log/*It's OK, but just at that time. When a new log file or new directory is created in /log,... (8 Replies)