Re: chgrp program gives inappropiate error

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Maryniak <address@hidden> wrote:
> While testing permissions on my cvsroot as an ordinary user,
> I got an inappropiate error messages from chgrp.
> It did, however, correctly refused the operation:
>
>     address@hidden:/path/to/cvsroot $ chgrp users .
>     chgrp: you are not a member of group `users': Operation not permitted
>
> EM> but i _am_ a member of 'users'! :
>
>     address@hidden:/path/to/cvsroot $ id
>     uid=176(joe) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),101(cvsusers)
>
> EM> the '.' dir is owned by root, and therefore chgrp is not allowed
> EM> and this is ok, but the error message is wrong :-)

What version are you using?
That's not a problem with this release:

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz

Here's what I get, now:

  $ chgrp cdrom /
  chgrp: changing group of `/': Operation not permitted
  [Exit 1]

Thanks for the report.