I have a number of files that belong to my user account (running after become dibabel):
$ ls -alh /data/project/dibabel/www/static/dbg/i18n/ ... -rw-rw-r-- 1 yurik wikidev 11K Sep 26 15:03 en.json
Running take en.json shows en.json: You need to share a group with the file
Running chown or chgrp results in Operation not permitted
Relevant code is here
@Yurik, your yurik shell user is a member of the tools.dibabel group. Typically you would be expected to chgrp tools.dibabel <filename> as yurik before you become dibabel and then you should be able to take <filename>. The take command is not designed or intended to allow a tool account to usurp ownership of any arbitrary file on the filesystem.
$ id yurik uid=1011(yurik) gid=500(wikidev) groups=500(wikidev),50380(project-tools),50062(project-bastion),53347(tools.wiki-retweet-bot),54111(tools.dspull),54470(tools.dibabel)
@bd808 thanks for the explanation. This surfaced because i was doing an rsync directly from my laptop via ssh, and since i cannot login as dibabel directly, i will need to do some extra steps. Would it be possible for take to link to some documentation in its errors about this? Thx!
I added a bit of information to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Tool_Accounts#Manage_files_in_Toolforge, but more could probably be done to make this information easier to find.