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Re: chmod on symlink
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: chmod on symlink |
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Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:18:40 -0600 |
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Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'd like to be able to run chmod on a symlink so that users can't delete
> the symlink. Can it be done?
The permissions, owner, and group of a symlink are not significant.
They are there only because other files have them and symlinks were
fitted into the existing framework of being a file.
A symlink is simply a file in a directory. To prevent users from
removing a file from a directory you can remove write permission from
the directory.
Bob