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Bug 152398

Summary:	cp -p copy with root:other permissions
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Daniel Moshes <daniel.moshes>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	shillman
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Description Daniel Moshes 2005-03-29 09:40:03 UTC

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Description of problem:
Hi
I have linux redhat ent 3 . I have an nfs file system which is on netappliance F760.
When as a user I try to operate the command  âcp âpâ of  a files which the owner is root to the netapp nfs, I get the error:
 âcp: setting permissions for `./hosts': Operation not permittedâ.
A file is created but it is with ownership of root and group other.

See example:
dmoshes@lsis ~]$ cp -p /etc/hosts .
cp: setting permissions for `./hosts': Operation not permitted
[dmoshes@lsis ~]$ ls -l hosts
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          458 Jan 26 15:45 hosts

Please assist.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-4.5.3-26

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login to a system as a user foo from group boo which is not root
2.check that it has a netapp nfs file system
3.copy a file owned by the root to the netapp nfs file system with "cp -p"
  

Actual Results:  I get the error:
 âcp: setting permissions for `./hosts': Operation not permittedâ.
A file is created but it is with ownership of root and group other.


Expected Results:  It should not give error notice and copy the file with the ownership of the user foo  and group boo .

Additional info:

I have tried to upgrade core utills and it didn't work.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2005-03-31 09:59:58 UTC

You cannot set file ownership to root as a user.  I think the -p option will do
what you expect if you run cp as root.

Comment 3 Daniel Moshes 2005-03-31 10:42:58 UTC

Hi
This command should work when a user is operating it.It is users who are 
working.they cannot work as root.The direction of problem is to the kernel or 
the coreutils rpm I think.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2005-03-31 10:51:32 UTC

The command cannot work when a user is operating it, because users cannot
arbitrarily set file ownership -- otherwise there would be no point in storing
file ownerships in the first instance, since they could all be overridden.