[SunHELP] Chown

[Taren]

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> > I have a directory which is owned by a user. The user is no longer  in
> > the department.
> > My delimma is that as root, or as the user's Id, I can not change the
> > ownership of the file.
> > All attribute are correct. However when I try to change the ownership of
> > the directory, I get an error saying chown;filename: not owner.

The file system is most probably NFS mounted, so that only the owner can access
files in that directory (or of the directory itself).  The ownership of the
directory (or file) needs to be changed on the 'home' system.