[Klug-general] copying a symlink to other users

Evan Ingram evan.ingram at cariss.co.uk
Fri Nov 5 14:46:30 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:37 +0000, Mike Evans wrote:
> Erm - correction - my earlier comment applies to chown and chgrp 
> regarding --no-dereference - but that's what you want

huh?

the man page for chmod tells me chmod cannot change the permissions of
symlinks;
"chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic links; the chmod system
call cannot change their permissions."




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