chown
 

Hi!

I am the owner of some files, but I want to change the owner to antoher user.
Is this possible?

I execute this:

chown tom awk.log


and I get the following message:

chown: awk.log: Operation not permitted.


Thanks in advance!
LooPoo

Re: chown
 

Try doing it as root.

I do not have root rights on this compuer.

It's a server and I connect using putty.

Thanks,
LooPoo

Well, if you don't have roots rights, then ask the administrator to do it for you (if they are willng to).

So only the root can change the owner of a file/directory ???
The actual owner can't do that?

Thanks!

I don't think you can change your own files to be owned by another user and vice-versa, only root can do that.