On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > > (*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the > > ownership of a symlink. Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a > > program, there can exist programs which depend on it. > Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only > follow symlinks if they belong to the right person. OpenWall Linux kernel patch also finds some usage for ownership of symlinks in +t directories, just in case. OTOH: I've recently had to fix permissions of a bunch of symlinks (exactly due to -ow effect); apparently in ALT Linux the default behaviour of coreutils-5.2.1 is to affect the target though at a quick skim I can't identify the relevant patch, if any. -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/
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