Hi all for your answers, I´m going to tell you why I´m trying to do that. it´s more complicated that the use of chmod, but it is the begining ot the problem, I have a webserver with the user apache being the owner of all under /opt/www/. Well, this user hasn´t a shell (it´s is /sbin/nologin) so I can´t connect with this user. So I use another user that makes the upgrades of my application and web pages, (I use rsync to make this upgrades). The problem is that with this user I can´t change the permission to the files. One more thing, when I update one file, it changes the owner and group of the file to the user that I use to connect. I use this: rsync -azv -e 'ssh ' --delete /locatpatch/* user2@server:/opt/www/ perhaps it´s a problem with what I want to do (I know, that I can dive shell access to the apache user and do all with it, but I prefer not to grant that permissions to this user) any idea? ESG 2010/1/14 <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> > > Hi all, > > > > I have a problem changing permissions to some files using chmod and now I > > have a doubt about the owner and group of a file, > > > > I´ll try to explain. > > > > I have 2 users, user1 and user2, both belongs to group1. > > > > I have a file with this permissions: > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 user1 group1 file.txt > > > > with user2 I can read, write this file. but If I try to change the > > permissions with this: > > chmod 770 file.txt I get the error: > > operation not permitted, > > > > so my doubt is, only the owner can change the permissions to a file? > > Think about the *meaning* of what you tried to do: you, as a member of the > group, but not as the owner, are trying to make it so that the owner > cannot even look at the file, not execute, not write, not even read. Does > that make sense? > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
