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Greetings all;

I have just recently upgraded to Leap 15 and I’m having trouble with the “chown” command in my home directory.
The system parameters are thus:
File modes are: 755 User/Group/Others
umask is 0002
The command:
chown :users /bin
Returns an “Operation not permitted” error.

This is the terminal output:

nternet@linux-z6ia:~> dir
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 3 nternet nternet 4096 May 1 11:46 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 nternet nternet 4096 May 7 07:17 Desktop
SHORTEND FOR CLARITY.

nternet@linux-z6ia:~> chown -c :users /bin
chown: changing group of ‘/bin’: Operation not permitted
nternet@linux-z6ia:~>

It is obvious that I have the rights to make these changes, but I’m not allowed.

The umask is:
nternet@linux-z6ia:~> umask
0002

The command “chgrp” yields the same results.

Can anyone help me with what I missed.

Thanks in advance.
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2

Why do you want to change the owner/group of “/bin”?

Or did you mean “bin”? Maybe that “/” is a mistake.

3

@jamesbg:

Or, did you forget the “~”?

dir -d ~/bin
4

Ok I see that. The “/” was a mistake. However when I am using the permissions page of the properties sheet (using Dolphin) I can not reassign the group ID. On my older 13.2 system I could do this. The reason I bring this up is not to actually change the permissions of any thing in my home directory, but to change the group ID of a directory in another partition. This problem seem to be system wide. It is either a mis-configed “Dolphin” or a “mis-configed” install. I need this because I have a group named “programers” that must have access to various other directories. It is bothersome to have to open a terminal and run “mc” to make these changes.

My Drive geometry is as follows:


LABEL=systemroot     /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
UUID=50ACBAC2ACBAA240 /mnt/winntmaint      ntfs-3g    users,noauto,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
LABEL=swap           swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
LABEL=software       /software            ext3       user,acl,user_xattr   1 2
LABEL=Home           /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=LinuxStorage   /mnt/linuxstorage    ext3       user,acl,user_xattr   1 2
UUID=F6E2BC94E2BC5A97 /mnt/winnt           ntfs-3g    users,noauto,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdb7            /mnt/winNT-Store      ntfs-3g    users,auto,gid=users,fmask=000,dmask=000,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

I’m not sure if the problem is in the partition mount parameters or something I might have done during the install.

Thanks.

5

Okay, I now better understand what you are trying to do.

Checking, I can’t make those changes either. It seems to be a limitation of Dolphin. Back with openSUSE 13.2, if I recall correctly, we were using Plasma 4. Now we are using Plasma 5. Maybe this is a change that the KDE developers made in the move to Plasma 5.

I rarely use Dolphin, so I had not noticed the change. I’m mostly a command line person.

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I think not …

Fire up Dolphin – hit <Alt-spacebar> and begin typing: either “dol” or, language specific, “fil” – arrow down to the one you want – hit <Return> …
Click on “> Home” to open the full directory path – begin typing the directory name «no slashes or anything else – only the name … » – arrow down to the one you want – hit <Return> …