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elifarley

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From: Rio de Janeiro

Registered: 2008-03-07

Posts: 37

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Unable to assign a certain group to files or folders

I'm able to change a folder's group to 'users':

> chown ci-admin:users .

> ls -Falk
drwxr-xr-x  7 ci-admin users    1 Mar 12 11:11 ./

but I can't change it to group 'hg':

> chown ci-admin:hg .

> ls -Falk
drwxr-xr-x  7 ci-admin nobody   1 Mar 12 11:11 ./

in /etc/group, I have:

hg:x:99:hg,ci-admin

What could cause this?

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uwinkelvos

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Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 129

Re: Unable to assign a certain group to files or folders

cat /etc/group | grep ":99:"
nobody:x:99:

the package that created the hg group should be fixed, as id 99 is reserved for user nobody.