[ale] Permission hell question

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> Have a zip drive.
> It is mounted at /misc/zip/
> On it is a directory: /Scripts/wake/ and I want to
> change the ownership-Group of all the files in that
> directory. Got the command right and was told, for
> each file, "Operation not permitted."

What is the full path the the directory?  /misc/zip/Scripts/wake/ ????

> So I tried to back out a bit and change the permissions
> on the zip platter itself.
> the directory is currently listed this way:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x    6 nobody   users       16384 Dec 31  1969 zip
> 
> so I tried while in the /misc directory (as root):
> chown kilpatms.users * 
> and once again was told "Operation not permitted."
> 
> What's happening is that when I copy files (that have the
> correct permissions) from the hard drive to the zip platter
> [giving me a backup] the perms are changed from kilpatms-kilpatms
> to nobody-users.  I need to have the perms remain unchanged.

How are you copying the files?  Root should most definitely be able to 
change the permissions.

> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Sean
> 
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