Timeline for Symbolic link permissions don't change with chmod
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| May 6, 2011 at 20:26 | vote | accept | Amelio Vazquez-Reina | ||
| May 6, 2011 at 20:26 | vote | accept | Amelio Vazquez-Reina | ||
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| May 6, 2011 at 20:25 | vote | accept | Amelio Vazquez-Reina | ||
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| May 6, 2011 at 19:52 | comment | added | geekosaur |
Not even with the administrator's help. File deletion depends on the permissions of the containing directory, not on those of the file. (rm specifically checks the file for read-only unless you pass -f, because one usually doesn't intend a read-only file to be deleted, but unlink() doesn't care. Try it from Perl or Python sometime.)
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| May 6, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | Amelio Vazquez-Reina | I see, thanks. I just want to prevent anybody from deleting the symbolic link. From what I understand then I cannot change the permission of this link without the help the administrator, correct? | |
| May 6, 2011 at 19:45 | history | answered | geekosaur | CC BY-SA 3.0 |