[Labs-l] Permissions issue

Sat Jun 4 16:43:00 UTC 2016

Plus, If you were looking into the manuals correctly. You wouldn't have any
issues: Here is the Persian manual
<https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Ladsgroup/%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%87_%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF>
and
English manual.
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs#Updating_files>

Best

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:50 PM Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, protocol of solving issues (IMO) is checking help pages, then stack
> overflow, then asking in IRC and the last case filing a bug in phabricator.
> And when you've got your answer (for example in IRC), put it in help pages
> to save others from going through this again in future. Mailing lists are a
> place to discuss (not to debug) and It's not very search-able either.
>
> About phabricator. Don't worry to be wrong. Worst case scenario, it'll be
> marked as invalid but better people gets the ping instead of everyone in
> this mailing list (given that you add proper projects).
>
> Best
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:36 PM Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @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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