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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 4, 2016, at 10:59, Huji Lee <<a href="mailto:huji.huji@gmail.com" class="">huji.huji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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:<br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:ii_1551beb088d0a1d4"><image.png></span><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">When I run <i class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">chown tools.huji:tools.huji stats.py</span></i> 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.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">When I try <i class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">sudo chown tools.huji:tools.huji file</span></i> as either huji or tools.huji, I get asked a password. I don't think my account is a sudoer.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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).<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Huji<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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