Without further ado, the following was found: Issue: in enabled → is enabled "The permissions of a symbolic link are irrelevant; the ownership is ignored " "when following the link (except when the I<protected_symlinks> feature in " "enabled, as explained in B<proc>(5)), but is checked when removal or " "renaming of the link is requested and the link is in a directory with the " "sticky bit (B<S_ISVTX>) set."