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Old 04-01-2005
Permissions on link files
Does any one now if you can change permissions on a linked file with out completely removing it and then relinking it?
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Old 04-01-2005
The permissions on a link are always 755, owner is the creator of the file and the group is the primary group of the creator. If chmod is used on a symbolic link, the target file permissions will be modified.

Hope this helps!
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Old 04-01-2005
Actually the permissions on a symlink are 777 but this is modified by the umask. This fact can be used to devise a script to re-create a symlink with different permissions. Since the permissions on a symlink are ignored there is no reason to this.
 
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