Finley Ave

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When I try to edit, rename, or change permissions for root .bash_profile, I get permission denied. The permissions showing are 644, owner and group is root. I have this problem only recently on both my cpanel boxes, but not on a non-cpanel box. Any help is appreciated.
 

chirpy

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You've probably chattr'd the file (or installed a script that did so). You can check with:

lsattr .bash_profile

If it's not all dashes then you need to remove the attribute. It's probably immutable (i), so to remove that you would:

chattr -i .bash_profile