[Labs-l] Permissions issue

[Amir Ladsgroup]

Well, protocol of solving issues (IMO) is checking help pages, then stack
overflow, then asking in IRC and the last case filing a bug in phabricator.
And when you've got your answer (for example in IRC), put it in help pages
to save others from going through this again in future. Mailing lists are a
place to discuss (not to debug) and It's not very search-able either.

About phabricator. Don't worry to be wrong. Worst case scenario, it'll be
marked as invalid but better people gets the ping instead of everyone in
this mailing list (given that you add proper projects).

Best

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:36 PM Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Amir:
>
> Thanks for your reply! It is not really a bug. Things are working fine, it
> is *my* knowledge that was lacking.
>
> I would ask on IRC except IRC records are not really easy to search. I
> thought the records of this thread email might help someone like me in the
> future.
>
> @Maximilian:
>
> That solved my problem. Is the source code of this "take" script somewhere
> public? I wonder how it works.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> And Also I suggest you to file a bug in these cases or ask in the IRC
>> channel.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 7:46 PM Maximilian Doerr <
>> maximilian.doerr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you are trying to make the tool the owner of the file then use “take
>>> <file>”
>>>
>>> Cyberpower678
>>> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
>>> ACC Mailing List Moderator
>>> Global User Renamer
>>>
>>> On Jun 4, 2016, at 10:59, Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My account on WMFLabs servers is huji and it is in tools.huji group. I
>>> have a file under a subdirectory of /data/project/huji/ which is stuck in
>>> the ownership of huji:tools.huji and has chmod 770:
>>>
>>> <image.png>
>>>
>>> When I run *chown tools.huji:tools.huji stats.py* while I am logged in
>>> as huji, it gives me a permissions error. When I do "become huji" and then
>>> run the same chown command as huji.tools, I get the exact same error.
>>>
>>> When I try *sudo chown tools.huji:tools.huji file* as either huji or
>>> tools.huji, I get asked a password. I don't think my account is a sudoer.
>>>
>>> Can someone please help me correct this situation? (As in, teach me how
>>> to correct it myself, rather than fix it for me, unless there is no way for
>>> me to fix it).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Huji
>>>
>>>
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