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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

chown on solaris 10 (Not owner error)

By default only root can change ownership on Solaris 10 (Even owner of the file can't change it)

If you want owner of the file/directory to update the owner:

Update the /etc/system with the following and reboot
rstchown=0

or

Following if you want to change (Enter commands in the RED) with out reboot (It is not persistent)



# adb -w -k /dev/ksyms /dev/mem
physmem 3ee50a8
rstchown/D
rstchown:rstchown: 1
rstchown?W0x0
rstchown: 0x1 = 0x0
rstchown/D
rstchown:rstchown: 0

1 comment:

  1. The error message that Solaris gives to the owner of the file is "Not owner". That error message is, er, in error. "Not root" would be a much more appropriate message.

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