Re: Group permissions ?

Miller, Maurice wrote:
> curious why members of the same group can not chown/chmod files owned by the group ? 

It all depends upon the security policy of the underlying operating
system.  If the system allows it then you can do it.  If not then you
can't.

> When I execute chmod/chown I get this result;
> 
> user1@linux01#chmod 777 ps_ef
> chmod: changing permissions of `ps_ef': Operation not permitted

You are not the superuser so this is not allowed.

> user1@linux01#chown root:root ps_ef
> chown: changing ownership of `ps_ef': Operation not permitted
> user1@linux01#

You are not the superuser so this is not allowed.

> Any idea's why I am unable to do this ?

  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html

Search for "Why can only root chown files?" where there is an
explanation of this behavior.

Bob

P.S.  Also read "I reported a bug but did not get a response."  I know
there was a long delay in getting a response to your message.
Everyone was just busy at the time.  Way too much to do...