[NTLUG:Discuss] Is there a way to change permissions of a link

[Neil Aggarwal]

Steve:

I have symlinks, and the link has different permissions than
the file:

% ls -la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 neil neil 4 Sep 22 07:22 myLink-> myFile
-rw-r--r-- 1 neil neil 2276 Sep 1 15:29 myFile

Can the symlink have different permissions than 777?

	Neil.

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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, MadHat wrote:

> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > 
> > Steve:
> > 
> > Thank you for the long disucssion of how symbolic links work.
> > It was really very informative.
> > 
> > But my initial questions still remains.  Since the link is just
> > a file, it has its own set of permissions.  Shoudlnt I be able to make
> > the symlink readonly but have the file it points to be read/write?
> > 
> > If so, how can I do this?
> 
> Reread the explanation...  
> 
> a sym link is not a file (it does not have permissions), but an entry in
> the directory that point to the file...  The file is what has the
> permissions, not the directory entry.  A hard link would have the same
> permissions as the origional file because that is stored in the INODE...
> 
> # touch file
> # ls -l
> -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Nov  1 16:40 file
> 
> # ln file this
> # ls -l
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Nov  1 16:40 file
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Nov  1 16:40 this 
> # chmod 777 this
> # ls -l
> -rwxrwxrwx    2 root     root            0 Nov  1 16:40 file
> -rwxrwxrwx    2 root     root            0 Nov  1 16:40 this 
> 
> 
> I hope that came out right...  crappy netscape mail client...
> 
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