From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm net Subject: setgid: Operation not permitted Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:51:03 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FF02337.D6169DC9@gelm.net> References: <200312270820.hBR8Ked01366@skyinet.net> <3FEE5A53.4010401@sancharnet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Howdy: I broke something on my file server and now I can no longer 'su' (root) remotely. When I try I get this error: setgid: Operation not permitted Often I logged on remotely and issued su cd /hde3 chmod -R 775 * chgrp -R users So that I could 'rw' the files in that directory from any of my Windows workstations. OBTW, ("/hde3" is /dev/hde3). What might I have done and how do I fix it? The system is an old amd-k6-266 running Slackware-8.0 kernel 2.4.19 configured as a file server using nfs and samba. Happy holidays and new year, Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs