tentatively merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next pending testing On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:51 AM Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:21:07AM -0600 schrieb Steve French: > > Should this be 0777 instead of 0644? > > > > I noticed the man page for symlink says: > > > > "On Linux, the permissions of an ordinary 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." > > I thought about that as well. If you "ls -l" such a symlink once > created, it will show as 0777, probably the client does it > somehow. The problem however is that if you create it with 0777 > server-side, everybody can mess with that file that the client view as > a symlink. That's why I thought that 0644 is the best approximation. > > Regards, Volker -- Thanks, Steve
