Seeing in the output of an ls -l command that my symlinks were world writable, I worried for a while and tried to change the permissions on them using chmod. That was a useless exercise, as is in fact pointed out in man chmod… permission to set symlinks is I guess governed by the directory’s permissions.
Tumblelog
- Unsolicited mail-configuration assistance 9 March 2010
- Red Hat and Flat World Knowledge 28 February 2010
- On performance bonuses and fair compensation 28 February 2010
- This Bloom Box 26 February 2010
- "Self-expression is the new entertainment. So, you know, we used to never question the fact that..." 26 February 2010
- Yale project study finds that people “more readily count someone as an expert when that person endorses a conclusion that fits their cultural predispositions.” 23 February 2010
- Lotus Elise uglified for 2011 23 February 2010
- "Ironically – given the recent media coverage – it feels a lot safer than any site that I’ve seen..." 23 February 2010
- Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero. This, indeed, is the... 18 February 2010
- "The funny thing is, you can turn most people away from the computer and read the error message..." 12 February 2010
0 Responses to “Chmod and symbolic links”