Re: root cannot chown files

On Apr 23, 12:43 pm, wscott44 <wscot...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Folks:

I have been under the impression that the root user can do just about
anything with files.  Now I am having trouble from the root login,
trying to chown a couple files.  What should I investigate?

# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(system) groups=2(bin),3(sys),7(security),8(cron),
10(audit),11(lp)

# ls -l *xx*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 466      hold4          7725 Oct 03 2006  xxdiff
-rw-------   1 466      hold4          7724 Oct 03 2006  ~xxdiff

# chown iscpadm *xx*
chown: xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
chown: ~xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
#

Thanks,
Wayne Scott


I have learned that the files are on a file system that is NFS mounted
from a server which does not explicitly allow root access from the
client machines.

/wws
.

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