Eric Maryniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While testing permissions on my cvsroot as an ordinary user,
> I got an inappropiate error messages from chgrp.
> It did, however, correctly refused the operation:
>
> joe@somehost:/path/to/cvsroot $ chgrp users .
> chgrp: you are not a member of group `users': Operation not permitted
>
> EM> but i _am_ a member of 'users'! :
>
> joe@somehost:/path/to/cvsroot $ id
> uid=176(joe) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),101(cvsusers)
>
> EM> the '.' dir is owned by root, and therefore chgrp is not allowed
> EM> and this is ok, but the error message is wrong :-)
What version are you using?
That's not a problem with this release:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz
Here's what I get, now:
$ chgrp cdrom /
chgrp: changing group of `/': Operation not permitted
[Exit 1]
Thanks for the report.
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