[Novalug] cant remove ssh. cant even chown it

Norman Bird steelpulsefan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 18:32:43 EDT 2008


I noticed i was unable ssh to my main box. so i tried to uninstall and that
gave errors.  installing also fails with errors about unable to link a file
etc. So it occured to me it may be a file problem, permissions etc. so i
find /usr/sbinsshd which is still there and I cant remove it. owner appears
to be 501 and group root, if im reading it right:

-rwxr-xr-x 1  501 root  236457 2008-05-15 07:36 sshd

here is the error when i try to chown:

server1:/usr/sbin# chown root:root sshd
chown: changing ownership of `sshd': Operation not permitted

this is the beauty i see fater rm:

server1:/usr/sbin# rm sshd
rm: remove write-protected regular file `sshd'? y
rm: cannot remove `sshd': Operation not permitted

So whatcha waiting for people? Don't just stand there. chime in!  :-)
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