Re: Problems changing permissions

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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:26:27AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:59 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> > Hi Folks:
> > 
> > I am trying to change the ownership on some files in a Qmail
> > installation, on a FC3 server.
> > 
> > I am logged in as root, and when I issue the chown root:root -R bin
> > command, I get an error that says that changing ownership is not
> > permitted
> 
> What is the filesystem? Some legacy filesystems do not support changing
> ownership. If it is ext2 or ext3, this won't be the issue.
> 
> Also, I think you need the "-R" before the "root:root".
> 
> > 
> > 
> > As far as I know (how do I check for sure?) Selinux is turned off
> 
> getenforce, which returns enforcing, permissive or disabled. Off =
> disabled.
> 
> > 
> > Heres the output of the directory listing
> > 
> >  [root@srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin
> > [root@srvweb-02 bin]# ls -al
> > total 1332
> > drwxrwxrwx  2 4294967294 4294967294  4096 Oct 11 08:48 .
> > drwx------  8 4294967294 4294967294  4096 Oct 11 08:48 ..
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 49548 Oct 11 08:48 clearopensmtp
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 53692 Oct 11 08:48 dotqmail2valias
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vaddaliasdomain
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52716 Oct 11 08:48 vadddomain
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Those UID and GIDs look way too big. How was Qmail installed? If you
> create a new file in the same directory, does it have root as the owner,
> and can you change the owner/group?
> 
I think you will find that the UID and GID are -2 base 2**31 , which
is a form of nobody.
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