File/directory permission question
Peter Blajev
peter at castandcrew.com
Fri Dec 3 04:13:33 UTC 2004
Hi,
I created the following directory structure and file aaaaa:
[peter at sdpeter asdf]$ ls -al
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 2 20:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 8 peter peter 4096 Dec 2 20:00 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 0 Dec 2 20:02 aaaaa
Then I decided to chown the file and got "Operation not permitted"
[peter at sdpeter asdf]$ chown gregory aaaaa
chown: changing ownership of `aaaaa': Operation not permitted
What is going on here?
It's my file. Shouldn't I be able to do whatever I want with it?
Another example:
4 drwxrwxrwx 2 peter users 4096 Dec 2 20:02 .
4 drwxrwxrwx 8 peter users 4096 Dec 2 20:00 ..
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 gregory users 0 Dec 2 20:02 aaaaa
Why peter can not chmod file aaaaa?
It looks like I'm missing some basic linux knowledge here.
Please help.
Thanks
Peter
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