Unable to change User permissions

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Brief description of the problem

I’m attempting to change the permissions (Access Control) on a Shared folder

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Error Traceback provided on the Web-UI

        Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/rest_framework_custom/generic_view.py”, line 41, in _handle_exception
yield
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/storageadmin/views/share_acl.py”, line 60, in post
chown(mnt_pt, options[“owner”], options[“group”], options[“orecursive”])
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/acl.py”, line 34, in chown
return run_command(cmd)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/opt/rockstor/src/rockstor/system/osi.py”, line 290, in run_command
raise CommandException(cmd, out, err, rc)
system.exceptions.CommandException: Error running a command. cmd = /usr/bin/chown -R root:users /mnt2/Movies. rc = 1. stdout = [‘’]. stderr = [“/usr/bin/chown: changing ownership of ‘/mnt2/Movies’: Operation not permitted”, ‘’]
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@Maxukabam Welcome the the Rockstor community forum.

So this is a strange one, as that looks like a perfectly legitimate command we are trying to run there:

/usr/bin/chown -R root:users /mnt2/Movies

Can you give us some history of this Share, and confirm that the same command, executed as root in the terminal, equally fails.

@Hooverdan & @Flox any ideas on this one. Could this pertain to some prior AD restrictions. @Maxukabam has this Pool previously been imported from a prior Rockstor install, or been subject to an AD setup. I’m currently a little baffled by this one: so more info/history may help.

What output, for example, do the following commands output when run as the root user in a console:

ls -la /mnt2/your-pool-name-here
ls -la /mnt2/Movies

Could you also let us know the version of the Rockstor package you are running (top right in Web-UI) and how you installed this setup.

Hope that helps, at least by way of additional info for folks to consider.

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The only other thing I could think of, and I don’t know why that should have happened is that the Movies directory has the immutable flag set, which could be checked via lsattr /mnt2/.

If it indeed has the immutable flag set (you would see an i in the attribute list in the output) then it could be removed via chattr -i /mnt2/Movies. But that is a long shot.

As per

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