Linux Permission issues

villumanati · 12-13-2015, 09:47 PM

I am having issues with changing the group for a directory and all sub directories and files. Would someone let me know what I am doing wrong.

All my media is located in

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/home/trb/oldServerBackup/oldServerBackup/Videos/Videos
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I ran ls -l on this directory and saw the following permissions:

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drwxr-xr-x. 90 trb trb 8192 May 26  2015 Videos

Then I attempted to run the following command

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 chgrp -R recording Videos

And was told that I have an invalid group

chgrp: invalid group: ‘recording’

I verified both the recording user/group exist on my system. What do I need to do in order to allow recording to have read access on this directory so I can complete my configuration

Code:

chown: changing group of ‘Videos/’: Operation not permitted
[trb@localhost Videos]$ chown -R :recording Videos/


Would someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Aia · 12-13-2015, 10:10 PM

You can not do that unless you are root or you are part of the group recording.