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Subject: Re: [suse-security] Change group/owner of dir or files
From: Jan Trippler (Jan.Tripplert-online.de)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 17:57:12 CDT

On Don, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:45:44 +0200, wil van der wee wrote:
> I have tried to change group owneras root,
> but in all cases it says
> "operation not permitted"
>
> To be be more specific I have a DOS partition where
> I have installed dos OS and a Dos programm, automaticly
> this partition is mounted at start up of Linux in
> /home/dos, but as mentioned before I can not change the
> group or owner. Only when I login as root on a win95/98
> machine it is allowed to execute this dos programm
> installed on the Linux server. Does anyone know what
> I'am doing wrong here.

Ouh - this *little bit* of information is very important :-(
dos partitions don't support Linux owner and group strategy. There
are some mount options to set the right mode and owner of all files.
See
man mount
for detailed information.

Jan

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