On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote:

> Hello, I'm having trouble with this:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Herculano]# ls -ld Filmes
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Aug 13 20:32 Filmes
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Herculano]# chmod o+w Filmes
> chmod: changing permissions of `Filmes' (requested: 0757, actual: 0755):
> Operation not permitted
> 
> Why is that? Can't be file attributes, since hda5 is fat32 (windows
> partition), right? I get errors when trying to lsattr this file.
> 
> Thanks in advance

Couple of reasons I can think of.  chattr has been used to modify some 
property of the file or LIDS has been installed and root has no privledge 
to change these attributes.    Check chattr first.


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