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01-28-2012 07:14 AM
01-28-2012 07:14 AM
chown to nobody Invalid Argument?
root@uz00152p:/ccip_fdm_share/FDMPROD> ls -la
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 96 Jan 28 00:45 .
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 96 Nov 8 19:43 ..
drwxrwxrwx 7 fteuser fteuser 96 Jan 27 08:36 ABTFDMPROD
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 96 Jan 28 00:26 x
root@uz00152p:/ccip_fdm_share/FDMPROD>
root@uz00152p:/ccip_fdm_share/FDMPROD> whoami
root
root@uz00152p:/ccip_fdm_share/FDMPROD> chown nobody
root@uz00152p:/ccip_fdm_share/FDMPROD> chown nobody:nogroup ABTFDMPROD
ABTFDMPROD: Invalid argument
Any help appreciated.
The app is crappy. The design is bad. Discussion on those topics are not necessary
Have to do it.
I have seen a couple of threads on the topic, but could not find any solution as yet.
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01-28-2012 09:58 AM
01-28-2012 09:58 AM
Re: chown to nobody Invalid Argument?
nobody and nogroup are specialized entries with a numeric value of -2. This is an invalid value for file and directory ownership. That is the reason for the invalid argument. It sounds like a novice DBA or sysadmin thought this would be a good idea but for VxFS or HFS filesystems on HP-UX, it is an invalid ownership. Note that -2 (noody and nogroup) have a special meaning for NFS, but are not used to assign actual ownership.
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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01-28-2012 06:22 PM
01-28-2012 06:22 PM
Re: chown to nobody Invalid Argument?
>Note that -2 (nobody and nogroup) have a special meaning for NFS, but are not used to assign actual ownership.
Yes they are special to NFS. And somehow NFS is able to assign those values to ownership.
I think I tried the chown experiment once too.
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