[Klug-general] copying a symlink to other users

[David Halliday]

I'm guessing to try something with the owner of the symlink,
otherwise the permissions of modification are down to the file.

Failing that, try a chmod on the symlink

On 5 November 2010 11:52, Evan Ingram <evan.ingram at cariss.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
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