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Re: [cobalt-users] File Permissions
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] File Permissions
- From: Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Dec 16 17:04:01 2003
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:55 pm, Aaron Caviglia wrote:
> I tried changing the owner, and I got the error "Operation not
> permitted".
>
> So I thought I would just changes the permissions on the file just to
> see what would happen, not the end result I'm looking for and I got
> the same error?
To change permissions or ownership you must have write permissions to
the directory the drive is located in.
Doing it as root will guarantee those permissions <smile>.
Jeff
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