chgrp program gives inappropiate error

[Eric Maryniak]

Dear reader,

While testing permissions on my cvsroot as an ordinary user,
I got an inappropiate error messages from chgrp.
It did, however, correctly refused the operation:

    address@hidden:/path/to/cvsroot $ chgrp users .
    chgrp: you are not a member of group `users': Operation not permitted

EM> but i _am_ a member of 'users'! :

    address@hidden:/path/to/cvsroot $ id
    uid=176(joe) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),101(cvsusers)

EM> the '.' dir is owned by root, and therefore chgrp is not allowed
EM> and this is ok, but the error message is wrong :-)

    address@hidden:/path/to/cvsroot $ l
    total 20
    drwxr-x---   5 root     cvsusers     4096 Aug 17 16:47 .
    drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root         4096 May 14 16:08 ..
    drwxrwx---   3 root     cvsusers     4096 Aug 22 17:27 CVSROOT
    drwxrwx---   4 joe      cvsusers     4096 Aug 18 00:15 DBC
    drwxrwx---   9 joe      cvsusers     4096 Aug 21 17:06 Walnut


Thanks for your time and the fine fileutils in Linux,

Bye-bye,

Eric
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