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Author: Fred
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] How to force permission change?
On 10/24/23 07:06, Manfred Wassmann via Dng wrote:
> you may have an attribute (immutable) set. Try 'man chattr'. HTH
>
> On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Fred <fred@???
> <mailto:fred@blakemfg.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,

>
>     I have some files on a NAS box that have funky permissions that
>     prevent access to them.  They can't be read by xpdf or others.

>
>     root@ragnok:/home/fred# ls -l /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>     -rw------- 1 501 501 451089 Feb 17  2009
>     /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf

>
>     root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>     chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf':
>     Permission denied

>
>     root@ragnok:/home/fred# chmod 664 /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
>     chmod: changing permissions of
>     '/mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf': Permission denied

>
>     How to force change of permissions and/or ownership?

>
>     Best regards,
>     Fred
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Hi,

I tried chattr -i /mnt/dns321/pdf_6/ELCON_UL9_cap.pdf
I received permission denied. It doesn't appear to me the other chattr
options apply.

lsattr by root also gives permission denied.

Best regards,
Fred