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Old 12-07-2009
Tools regarding changing ownership and group
i am able to change the mode using chmod and able to change permission.

but i am not able to change group and ownership. getting as invalid

can any one help me regarding this .
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Old 12-07-2009
Hi.

This is from the chown manpage (AIX, but the same holds true for any system - I would hope!)

Quote:
Only the root user can change the owner of a file. You can change the group of a file only if you are a root user or if you own the
file. If you own the file but are not a root user, you can change the group only to a group of which you are a member.
Hope this helps!
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Old 12-07-2009
Thanks
thanks dude.

i am the owner of file but not a root user.

so i am not able to change the owner and group.

so as a owner of file can change permissions only but not owner and group

Am i right

Smilie
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Old 12-07-2009
As a non-root user you can only change the group, and only to a group that you are a member of - as the man page stated.

This might shed more light on it: https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-ex...esnt-work.html
Last edited by Scott; 12-07-2009 at 10:14 AM..
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Old 12-07-2009
Thanks for your reply
 
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