[Klug-general] copying a symlink to other users

[Evan Ingram]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 10:46 +0000, Mike Evans wrote:
> Yup - unless you tell it not to.  Have a look at the man page for cp.  I 
> suspect that the -d or -P command line flag might help.
> 

-d seems to do the trick.

next problem; i'd like to make it so that users cannot modify the
symlink or delete it. is this possible as symlinks just seem to be 777
and/or pick up the permissions of the directory they are linked to.