Chown away from 'nobody'

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February 16th, 2008, 10:04 PM

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Chown away from 'nobody'

Somehow, on my G5 running OS 10.5.x, I have ended up with some files with the ownership: nobody:someexistingname

The result prohibits other users on the network to save files to those directories, no matter how they log in.

I have tried repeatedly to:

Code:

sudo chown somenewuser:someexistingname directorynamehere

but to no avail (unfortunately, as you know, chown and chmod return no error messages).

How can I change from "nobody"?

Thanks.

April 15th, 2008, 10:32 AM

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Leopard introduced some new permission features. ACLs mostly. Try getting info on the dir in question and adding users/groups to the dir that way.

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