On 06/02/15 18:50, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: > 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. Yeah, now I think about it, saying that you can delete / move the symlink based on directory permissions and then saying that you need root for creation doesn't quite check out. You're right. Creation, deletion and moving (deletion then creation?) of a symlink is entirely dependant on the directory it is stored in. But actions like reading, writing and executing which act on the actual linked file depend on the permissions of the actual file linked to. (And it's needless to say that the file permissions of the symlink itself (777) can be completely ignored.) -- Tomasz Kramkowski E-Mail: tk@xxxxxxxxxx PGP: 6FCE87503AAF42AB3BF4 94FE40B037BA0A5B8680
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