Hello Friends,

I want to change the the user and group of user kumata as kumara,but not getting change by using the below command.
#chown -R kumara:kumara kumara

Getting using doesn't exist.

For reference find the below output.

[root@xyz ~]# /usr/bin/getent passwd | grep mathurr
mathurr:x:12271:12271:Mathur, Rajat X:/home/mathurr:/bin/bash
[root@xyz ~]# /usr/bin/getent passwd | grep kumara
kumara:x:12102:12102:Kumar, Abhishek X:/home/kumara:/bin/bash
[root@xyz ~]# ls -l /home
total 20
drwx------ 2 7986 7987 4096 Sep 27 12:07 kumara
drwx------ 2 massonv massonv 4096 Sep 29 16:05 massonv
drwx------ 2 7988 7989 4096 Sep 27 12:05 mathurr


Thanks-
Shankar

Take a look at "usermod".
You need to log out to change user.

It would be better if you could show the exact output from chown. However, I suspect the problem may be that the group kumara doesn't exist. Can you confirm this?

Eg.

Evo2.

Yes the kumara group doen't exist. But also the massonv group is not there. I want the kumara same as massonv.

[root@xyz ~]# su - kumara
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/kumara: Permission denied
-bash: /home/kumara/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$

So, did you create the groups and check/fix the directory permissions and ownerships? Ie is this now solved?

Evo2.

Yes, now the user can login.

But can't upload file from their desktop to /var/www/ location.
Actually sudo is implemented. They will first upload to their home dir. then from that location to desired location. But its time consuming.
Is there any other way to do this??

Upload? scp?

Make /var/www/location writable by some group and put the users in that group.

Evo2.

Actually AD integradtion is used for the users.
So when we try to add user in created group locally, getting user already exist and gets conflicting error.

Means we can't create/add group and users on locally?

Sorry, I have no idea what "AD integradtion" is.

Evo2.

AD is "Active Directory".