On 02/06/2015 01:27 AM, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote: > On 05/02/15 19:20, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: >> their actual permissions are those of the target. > > From what I understand (and tests I've done, and discussions on arch > channels on IRC) their actual permissions are inherited from the > directory they are in AND from the permissions of a target. > > Actions that act on the target always inherit target permissions (read, > write and execute). Actions that act on the link, however, always > inherit the directory permissions (delete and move). > Delete and move always depend on the (parent) directory permission, whether you operate on a symlink, a file or a subdirectory. > This can be tested by symlinking a file from another user's home > directory (which will obviously have to be done as root. Actually, this does not need root. You can even create a symlink to a non-existing file if you want. Actually *accessing* the symlink is another matter of course. Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@xxxxxxx http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger@xxxxxxxxx
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