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I created a new group and assigned two existing users to that group as follows:

sudo groupadd mygroup
sudo adduser user1 mygroup
sudo adduser user2 mygroup

Now user1 has a directory called 'code' inside '/home/user1'. This user1 wants to change group ownership of this 'code' directory as follows:

ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Oct 10 07:54 code
whoami
user1
chgrp mygroup code
chgrp: changing group of ‘code/’: Operation not permitted
failed to change group of ‘code/’ from user1 to mygroup

Any ideas what may be going on here? Is it possible that even though user1 and user2 are members of the 'mygroup' they need something else to be able to assign files/directories to that group?

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    Did user1 log out and back in (or at least start a new login shell, for example su -l user1). Otherwise the new group membership won't be in effect yet (check with command groups).
    – steeldriver
    Oct 10, 2016 at 14:07
  • Command groups was showing the membership but user1 was using a gnome-terminal so I had logged out at user1 and logged back in. That resolved the issue. Thanks a bunch for your help!!
    – sshekhar1980
    Oct 10, 2016 at 14:42

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