I encountered a problem with chown on my fedora34 as the version of coreutils is 8.32. The reproduce process could see the steps blow: [root@fedora ~]# ll test.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Dec 13 21:13 test.txt [root@fedora ~]# chmod 4750 test.txt [root@fedora ~]# ll test.txt -rwsr-x---. 1 root root 0 Dec 13 21:13 test.txt [root@fedora ~]# chown root:root test.txt [root@fedora ~]# ll test.txt -rwxr-x---. 1 root root 0 Dec 13 21:13 test.txt [root@fedora ~]# rpm -qa coreutils coreutils-8.32-19.fc34.x86_64 [root@fedora ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four) Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks.