Re: operation not permitted

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

> address@hidden test]$ ls -l
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--  1 emonvert bmjj   0 jui 12 12:01 testsas
>
> address@hidden test]$ chgrp -v sas testsas
> Échec de changement de groupe de `testsas' vers sas
> chgrp: modification du groupe de `testsas': Operation not permitted

Thanks for your bug report.  This looks like it is an operating system
issue, not a coreutils issue.  If you are running on GNU/Linux, you
can test this theory by invoking the command:

strace chgrp sas testsas

and seeing which system call fails.

The problem could occur, for example, if your system has ACLs that do
not permit you to change ownership, or if _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is
in effect.

Also, there seems to be something wrong with your installation: that
"Operation not permitted" should be in French, no?  But again, that
message comes from the C library, not from coreutils itself, so it
looks like the problem is elsewhere.