I'm soon to be taking a Red Hat module which includes a lot of command-line goodness. It's surprising that many people are unfamiliar with command-line, so once again, I've taken to youtube with a relatively basic tutorial on how to use chmod.
Monday, 3 February 2014
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Chown Error: Operation not permitted
I'm taking a Red Hat course/module soon (RHA030) and I was playing around with the chown command. If you're not familiar with the command, it is an abbreviation of change owner/ownership and does what it says on the tin - lets you change the owner of a file. I'm sure you know how to run it, or else you wouldn't see this error message: 'Operation not permitted'.
I was actually working on a Macbook Pro on OS X Mavericks when I received the error. I had a file with the following permissions:
-rw-r--r-- 1 simon staff 455 25 Jan 15:05 file.rtf
(Please note, you must run the command as root otherwise you'll get this error:
chown: file.rtf: Operation not permitted)
Once I ran the command as root, it asked for a password. I didn't have a password on my account, so I hit enter and received the error:
chown: file.rtf: Operation not permitted
This error can be fixed by simply giving your root account a password. Once done, I could run the command and change owner/group without any issues. I've read online that other people had issues and solved it by other means; but this may help someone out there.
Thanks for reading!
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