Originally posted by: apple08

dear aix guru,
we have assigned this folder 'local' to application admin. when she tries to chown to assign to her id and group, the operation not permitted as per the error shown below. why this thing happen? the current file owner and group is root:sys

$ ls -la |grep local
drwxr-xr-x 2 pkiwas wasgrp 4096 May 15 17:31 local
$ chown -R pkiwas:wasgrp local
chown: xztyyyy: Operation not permitted.
chown: abcd1234: Operation not permitted.
chown: module: Operation not permitted.

hope to hear from you. thank you

Originally posted by: orphy

It doesn't look like you are root when doing the change.
Orphy

Originally posted by: apple08

it's not root. the operation is perform by user.
i have assigned the folder to user. i thought when i give them the ownership of the folder, they are able to change the owner of the sub diretory under that folder.
is it true or false of my thinking? hope to hear from you. thank you.

Originally posted by: orphy

A normal user can't chown like that. You can change it for them as root.
Orphy

Originally posted by: apple08

dear mr orphy and aix guru,
but it's tedious for system admin i think.. how to be efficient in this administration... we have few applications inside the server. hope to hear from you. thank you

Originally posted by: orphy

I've been doing UNIX for a long time and I've never thought this being efficiency. I don't know your security requirements but there are usually ways to accomplish things if you know how things work and think things through in advance. Maybe having a shared group with the proper permissions would help your situation.
Orphy

Originally posted by: dukessd

Group only has read and execute permission, rwx r-x r-x, if you want to give the group control then chmod 775 the fs.