[Labs-l] Permissions issue

Sat Jun 4 15:18:45 UTC 2016

And Also I suggest you to file a bug in these cases or ask in the IRC
channel.

Best

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 7:46 PM Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you are trying to make the tool the owner of the file then use “take
> <file>”
>
> Cyberpower678
> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
> ACC Mailing List Moderator
> Global User Renamer
>
> 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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