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Changing Ownership: Operation not permitted - even as root! 89 I am trying to help a user solve an issue with a bootable USB drive, but there seems to be a file whose ownership cannot be edited I thought it would have been possible with: sudo chown user:user ldlinux sys When that is executed, however, terminal gives this error: Operation not permitted The extended chat I had with the user can be found
Syntax error when I add chown to sudoer file - Ask Ubuntu You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful What's reputation and how do I get it? Instead, you can save this post to reference later
Change folder permissions and ownership - Ask Ubuntu Use chown to change ownership and chmod to change rights As Paweł Karpiński said, use the -R option to apply the rights for all files inside of a directory too Note that both these commands just work for directories too The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory For example sudo chown -R username:group directory will change
chown: changing ownership of `. . . : Operation not permitted 3 Besides being root, as others have pointed out, there is another more flexibile way to manage this privilige You can also give files away via chown if your process thread has the CAP_CHOWN Posix capability
Newest chown Questions - Ask Ubuntu `chown` is an abbreviation of "change owner" This command is used to change the owner and group owner of a file or directory
filesystem - How to restore the default chown permissions on a . . . pkexec chown root:root usr bin sudo In a situation like yours, that's mainly useful as a convenience measure to make it easier to perform whatever administrative tasks you need to get done before reinstalling
chown: invalid user: ‘user:group’ - Ask Ubuntu You have to actually put in your user name and group name - eg sudo chown pt:pt usr lib libcastle Changes the owner of that file to pt and the group also to pt