I have a remote partition that i have mounted locally using NFS.
'mount' gives
192.168.3.1:/mnt/storage-pools/ on /pools type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.3.1)
On the server i have in exports:
/mnt/storage-pools *(rw,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check)
Then I try
touch /pools/test1
ls -lah
-rw-r--r-- 1 65534 65534 0 Dec 13 20:56 test1
chown root.root test1
chown: changing ownership of `test1': Operation not permitted
What am I missing ? Pulling my hairs out.
I've always done:
chown nimmylebby:admins file
I see that this also works:
chown nimmylebby.admins file
Might seem like a silly question but I'm genuinely curious on how the latter works. It isn't documented in my chown's manpage (GNU coreutils 8.4, 10/10). Is this perhaps a Bash interpretation? Or a deprecated format for the argument?
Seems like chown with the recursive flag will not work on hidden directories or files. Is there any simple workaround for that?
I just ran this a few seconds ago. I managed to do Ctrl - C as soon as I realized what I started doing.
So far the only directory it's started going through is /bin.
I'm afraid to do anything else. So far I realized I can't use su as my normal user anymore.
Luckily I still have another root terminal open. What do I do?
I try to chown the owner of a file to root, but I can't. I'm doing this as root. I get the following message:
chown: changing ownership of `ps': Operation not permitted