On 04/08/2013 08:22 PM, Niels Terp wrote: > *Fra:*lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org > [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] *På vegne af *Prabhu > *Sendt:* 8. april 2013 18:11 > *Til:* lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > *Emne:* [lfs-support] Changing the ownership > > Hi, I'm working on LFS-7.2, I successfully compiled the packages until > XZ-5.0.4 and I did stripping, then in Changing the ownership I checked > the permissions of tools directory as lfs user and host user then I > switched back to the root user and I executed this command "*sudo chown > -R root:root $LFS/tools*", but after executing it the permission remains > same. I would like to know the exact permission of the tools directory. > Could someone assist me in this. > > With Regards... > > PRABHU :) > > Hi PRABU, > > You don’t have to use SUDO here – the exact command is given in the book: > > *chown -R root:root $LFS/tools* > > Execute this command while you are still the ‘lfs’ user – even thougt > you don’t have root privilegedes, you can still “give away” your own > files and folders to another user. > > Greetings > > Niels > > AFAIK on Linux only root can use chown for changing ownership of a file, but any user can change the group to another group he belongs to. The command probably failed because PRABHU executed that with sudo while beeing root.
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