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Title
On AIX doing chown and not working correctly. Unable to change ownership on file system -
Description
On AIX doing chown and not working correctly.
chown longaccountname /app
Unable to change ownership on file system.
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Cause
This is happening due to a character limitation on AIX.
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Resolution
RESOLUTION 1:
1 - Issue the ls command with the -X option to display character lengths greater than 8
ls -lXd /apps
RESOLUTION 2:
Increase the character length
1 - chdev -l sys0 -a max_logname=21
2 - reboot