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3523455 - AIX: Cannot change owner to user <sid>adm

Symptom

During AAS installation, following error happened:

INFO 2024-09-25 05:31:23 DEFAULTPROFILE_IND_IND SyIsRemoteFS:400
    File/Filesystem /sapmnt/ABC/profile/DEFAULT.PFL is on an NFS-mounted filesystem.

WARNING 2024-09-25 05:31:23 DEFAULTPROFILE_IND_IND SyOwnerAndPermissionSet:0
    errno: 1: Not owner

WARNING 2024-09-25 05:31:23 DEFAULTPROFILE_IND_IND SyOwnerAndPermissionSet:900
    Function chown() failed for /sapmnt/ABC/profile/DEFAULT.PFL at location SyOwnerAndPermissionSet-900

WARNING 2024-09-25 05:31:23 DEFAULTPROFILE_IND_IND SyOwnerAndPermissionSet:950
    Cannot change owner to user abcadm (uid 4294967294), and group to group sapsys (gid 4294967294) of file
    /sapmnt/ABC/profile/DEFAULT.PFL. Please try to solve the problem or set the ownership manually.

ERROR 2024-09-25 05:31:23 DEFAULTPROFILE_IND_IND InstallationDo:0
    Phase failed.

ERROR 2024-09-25 05:31:23 InstController Action:0
    Step DEFAULTPROFILE_IND_IND could not be performed.


Test file creation by root user has the UID and GID which belong to user "nobody".


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Environment

  • SAP Netweaver-based product
  • AIX server

Product

SAP NetWeaver 7.4 ; SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Keywords

root, access, chown(), change owner , KBA , BC-OP-AIX , IBM AIX , How To

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