Mac OS X : Why does chown report "Operation not permitted"?
- by josef.van.niekerk
I am trying to do the following on my Mac (10.6.7) :
sudo chown myusername:wheel ./entries
but Unix/Mac is returning "Operation not permitted". When I ls -lash, the culprit file, it looks as follows:
8 -rwxrwxrwx 1 myusername staff 394B Apr 26 23:26 entries
I've tried sudo, I've tried sudo su, nothing works? Any ideas what's up?
The files I'm trying to chmod I've copied from my old Ubuntu box, most of the files have successfully chmodded recursively, just this one is stuck and I don't understand why.