[Labs-l] Permissions issue

Sat Jun 4 16:06:44 UTC 2016

@Amir:

Thanks for your reply! It is not really a bug. Things are working fine, it
is *my* knowledge that was lacking.

I would ask on IRC except IRC records are not really easy to search. I
thought the records of this thread email might help someone like me in the
future.

@Maximilian:

That solved my problem. Is the source code of this "take" script somewhere
public? I wonder how it works.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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