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chown -R cfg<br />
chown: missing operand after `cfg'<br />
getting above error?<br />
<br />
i basically sudo as crm and then went to <br />
/crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12/x<wbr />yz3abc<br />
now cfg is under this<br />
<br />
please advise
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chown -R cfg
chown: missing operand after `cfg'
getting above error?

i basically sudo as crm and then went to
/crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12/xyz3abc
now cfg is under this

please advise

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i tried your command now i see error as<br />
/crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12/x<wbr />yz3abc/cfg<wbr />/123.cfg':<wbr /> Operation not permitted
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i tried your command now i see error as
/crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12/xyz3abc/cfg/123.cfg': Operation not permitted

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You need privilege to change ownership if you are not the original owner.<br />
<br />
Either &quot;su -&quot; or &quot;sudo su -&quot; to root and try again.
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You need privilege to change ownership if you are not the original owner.

Either "su -" or "sudo su -" to root and try again.

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hmm i logged in as root only not sure.<br />
let me sudo again<br />
<br />
what is chmod and how that is different from chown
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hmm i logged in as root only not sure.
let me sudo again

what is chmod and how that is different from chown

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chmod changes the file type.
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chown -R &nbsp;crm /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12/x<wbr />yz3abc/cfg<wbr /><br />
says operation not permited though
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chown -R  crm /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12/xyz3abc/cfg
says operation not permited though

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Run &quot;whoami&quot;. &nbsp;What does it say?<br />
<br />
Is this a valid path:<br />
<br />
ls -l /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12/x<wbr />yz3abc/cfg<wbr /><br />
<br />
Usually home directories are in /home (i.e., /home/crm not the other way around).
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Run "whoami".  What does it say?

Is this a valid path:

ls -l /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12/xyz3abc/cfg

Usually home directories are in /home (i.e., /home/crm not the other way around).

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it says crm<br />
that path is bit weird to me also
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it says crm
that path is bit weird to me also

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under home there are different users like XYZ3ABC<br />
and under 12 all web logic server instances are there
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under home there are different users like XYZ3ABC
and under 12 all web logic server instances are there

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i have to login as xyz3abc not crm to chown<br />
when i give chown command like<br />
chown -R crm /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12/x<wbr />yz3abc<br />
it seems worked except few tmp files where it said cannot change owner etc<br />
now when i go to /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12<br />
i see xyz3abc whose owner is crm which is good but under xyz3abc &nbsp;i still see some folders owned by xyz3abc one owned by crm though
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i have to login as xyz3abc not crm to chown
when i give chown command like
chown -R crm /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12/xyz3abc
it seems worked except few tmp files where it said cannot change owner etc
now when i go to /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12
i see xyz3abc whose owner is crm which is good but under xyz3abc  i still see some folders owned by xyz3abc one owned by crm though

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ls -l /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/comp<wbr />any/bea_do<wbr />mains/12/x<wbr />yz3abc/cfg<wbr /><br />
<br />
getenforce
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ls -l /crm/home/XYZ3ABC/opt/company/bea_domains/12/xyz3abc/cfg

getenforce

Like I said.  "su -" or "sudo su -" to root.

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crm itself is root here which is weird thing
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crm itself is root here which is weird thing

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&quot;sudo su -&quot; works just fine when sudo'ing to root. &nbsp;your way, my way, it all depends upon preference.
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"sudo su -" works just fine when sudo'ing to root.  your way, my way, it all depends upon preference.

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$ sudo -i &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [sudo] password for xyz3abc:<br />
xyz3abc is not in the sudoers file. &nbsp;This incident will be reported.<br />
<br />
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sudo -i asked me for password which i gave and it says above weird message. what it means?
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$ sudo -i                                                                                   [sudo] password for xyz3abc:
xyz3abc is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.


sudo -i asked me for password which i gave and it says above weird message. what it means?

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That means your account is not allowed to run <b>sudo</b>.
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That means your account is not allowed to run sudo.

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That means your account is not allowed to run sudo.
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who decide which account allowed to run sudo or not? how to add that privilege?
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> That means your account is not allowed to run sudo.

who decide which account allowed to run sudo or not? how to add that privilege?

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That privilege is determined by <b>/etc/sudoers</b><br />
<br />
Depending on which linux you use, you may just need to add the user to the group sudoers, admin, or wheel.
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That privilege is determined by /etc/sudoers

Depending on which linux you use, you may just need to add the user to the group sudoers, admin, or wheel.

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Hi,<br />
<br />
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Hi,

I see some folders( say folder_A which contains folder_C and folder_B which contains folder_D which again contains folder_#))  has xyz as owner. I want to change owner to abc to those folders and sub folders. How can i do it. How do same thing on some files say File_A and file_B etc preoperty files.please advise

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