NFS share unable to change ownership using root id gives error - Operation not permitted
Issue
- File created by "touch filename" and by doing "ls -l" no username and group name instead shows a numeric value of 10 digits. checked for this UID in /etc/passwd NO results found.
-rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294 0 Mar 4 15:06 testfile
- Also when customer tried to change ownership by using chown receives "operation not permitted" message.
[root@hostname]# chown root:root testfile
chown: changing ownership of `testfile': Operation not permitted
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- NFS version 3
- EMC NAS VNX 5700
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