Linux – “Unable to Display Current Owner” & Access Denied when trying to take ownership

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I'm facing a problem where I (logged in as the Administrator) am unable to view file attributes.

Please see the screenshot below.

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I'm not interested in taking ownership (even if I wanted to I'd to contend with the fact that"Access is Denied").
But if seeing the current owner can only be done by taking ownership its pretty pointless since the current owner would be me 🙂 ?

What I want to see is who is the current owner.
I guess I could log in as the current owner (If its SYSTEM) & change permissions with SYSTEM ACCOUNT.

But how do I do this ?

UPDATE

psexec -s cmd /c dir "E:\System Volume Information\" /a /q

E:\System Volume Information>psexec -s cmd /c dir "E:\System Volume Information\" /a /q

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 Volume in drive E is Local Disk
 Volume Serial Number is D8FC-3BF4

 Directory of E:\System Volume Information

08-10-2014  10:30    <DIR>          BUILTIN\Administrators .
08-10-2014  10:30    <DIR>          BUILTIN\Administrators ..
21-10-2014  09:30               136 BUILTIN\Administrators MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase
14-10-2014  11:21            20,480 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    tracking.log
22-09-2014  11:13    34,986,184,704 ...                    {060ece96-3720-11e4-bce5-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
19-06-2014  17:00            65,536 ...                    {3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
14-07-2014  15:17        91,275,264 ...                    {7204971e-0b1a-11e4-a348-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
14-07-2014  15:17           475,136 ...                    {72049720-0b1a-11e4-a348-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
23-07-2014  11:27     2,591,211,520 ...                    {720497be-0b1a-11e4-a348-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
25-09-2014  13:02         2,768,896 ...                    {720497c0-0b1a-11e4-a348-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
28-07-2014  10:35    24,944,459,776 ...                    {7204a0f0-0b1a-11e4-a348-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
22-10-2014  19:10    10,192,150,528 ...                    {7fb66a64-4e0a-11e4-b756-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
08-10-2014  00:11     3,145,728,000 ...                    {7fb66a66-4e0a-11e4-b756-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
14-07-2014  14:45     9,163,296,768 ...                    {a8789375-f60c-11e3-90a9-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
14-07-2014  14:45         1,589,248 ...                    {a8789376-f60c-11e3-90a9-005056c00008}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
              13 File(s) 85,119,225,992 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  182,760,902,656 bytes free
cmd exited on DHIWAKAR-PC with error code 0.

How do I see the owner where it shows … ?

There is a folder name I've blacked out. Please don't mind that.

Best Answer

I just discovered that if Administrators is the owner and there are multiple users with administrator privileges, ownership cannot be displayed.

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