Hi On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:15 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Symlinks often (always?) show as 777 permissions. Linux manpage for symlinks states http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/symlink.7.html On Linux, the permissions of a symbolic link are not used in any operations; the permissions are always 0777 (read, write, and execute for all user categories), and can't be changed.
