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Re: chown



On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:15:54AM -0200, Gilberto Martins wrote:
>    I have a user called "teste"
>    I want the user called "teste" to be the owner of this directory
>    That means "aluno" cannot do this. Can someone explain me why he can't ?

Only the root user can change the ownership of a file or directory; use
su or sudo to change to root first, and then try the same command again.

Cheers,

Paul.

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