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I am running Solaris 9. When I su as root, I want to change ownership of this directory /devbox to adminuser. How do I do this?


root@prod # cd /devbox
root@prod # ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Nov 2 10:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 41 root root 1536 Nov 2 10:38 ..
root@prod #

chown adminuser /devbox

To change the group to adminuser as well:

chown adminuser:adminuser /devbox

To change the directory and everything in it, as well as group:

chown -R adminuser:adminuser /devbox

Comes back with the error message:

chown: /devbox: Not owner

Either you aren't root or the directory is remote.