From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 0:18:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75D0337BBD6 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:17:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:17:57 +0200 Received: from sun11.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.111]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 12ZUdo-0000FM-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:12:52 +0200 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun11.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07480 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:17:48 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: sun11.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:17:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: strange behaviour of chown(due to my lameness probably) Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Situation: I have some file belonging to user xyz in th same group(e.g. xyz) Or little bit more visually User:xyz Group:xyz File:zyx.txt I tried to make following logged in as xyz user : chown abc zyx.txt and got Operation not permmited. The story about abc-user: User :abc Group:abc (e.g. the same group as his login) Any explnations,solutions,suggestions? kind regards, Ariel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message