bug#22030: chown permission denied

[Catalino Rivera]

Hi,

Here it is...

address@hidden:/media/windowsshare# chown --version
chown (GNU coreutils) 8.21
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
address@hidden:/media/windowsshare#



address@hidden:~# cd /media/windowsshare
address@hidden:/media/windowsshare# chown -R www-data: subversion myproject
chown: cannot access ‘subversion’: No such file or directory
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/locks/db-logs.lock’: Permission 
denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/locks/db.lock’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/locks’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/README.txt’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/conf/hooks-env.tmpl’: Permission 
denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/conf/passwd’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/conf/svnserve.conf’: Permission 
denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/conf/authz’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/conf’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/revs/0/0’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/revs/0’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/revs’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/txn-current-lock’: Permission 
denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/current’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/fs-type’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/fsfs.conf’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/write-lock’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/txn-protorevs’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/min-unpacked-rev’: Permission 
denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/revprops/0/0’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/revprops/0’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/revprops’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/transactions’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/txn-current’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/format’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db/uuid’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/db’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/pre-lock.tmpl’: Permission 
denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/post-lock.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/start-commit.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/pre-unlock.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/post-commit.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/post-revprop-change.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/post-unlock.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks/pre-commit.tmpl’: 
Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/hooks’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject/format’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of ‘myproject’: Permission denied

Thanks,,

On 11/28/2015 6:48 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> tag 22030 notabug
> close 22030
> stop
>
> Hello,
>
> On 11/27/2015 03:50 AM, Catalino Rivera wrote:
> > I successfully mounted NFS to a ubuntu server and access the file, 
> > however, linking this mounted thing to SVN and change the ownership 
> > giving a heck of headache, been scrolling all the
> > solution in the WWW, but no luck.
> [...]
> > # chown -R www-data: subversion myproject
> >
> > "permission denied"
>
> To help us identify the issue, please post the exact error message 
> from 'chown',
> and the output from 'chown --version'.
> A typical error message from GNU coreutils' chown looks like so:
>
>     $ chown --version | head -n1
>     chown (GNU coreutils) 8.23.170-02f67
>
>     $ sudo touch 1
>     $ chown gordon: 1
>     chown: changing ownership of ‘1’: Operation not permitted
>
> Without knowing full details,
> My first guess would it that it might have something to do with 
> root-squashing on the NFS-server-side
> (meaning, the 'root' user on your Ubuntu server does not actually have 
> super-user permissions on the NFS mount,
> and thus ownership modifications are blocked).
> more information here: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_security#Root_squash .
>
> regards,
>  - assaf