[Labs-l] Permissions issue

Sat Jun 4 15:16:43 UTC 2016

If you are trying to make the tool the owner of the file then use “take <file>”

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
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> On Jun 4, 2016, at 10:59, Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My account on WMFLabs servers is huji and it is in tools.huji group. I have a file under a subdirectory of /data/project/huji/ which is stuck in the ownership of huji:tools.huji and has chmod 770:
> 
> <image.png>
> 
> When I run chown tools.huji:tools.huji stats.py while I am logged in as huji, it gives me a permissions error. When I do "become huji" and then run the same chown command as huji.tools, I get the exact same error.
> 
> When I try sudo chown tools.huji:tools.huji file as either huji or tools.huji, I get asked a password. I don't think my account is a sudoer.
> 
> Can someone please help me correct this situation? (As in, teach me how to correct it myself, rather than fix it for me, unless there is no way for me to fix it).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Huji
> 
> 
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