On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 02:43:51AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > I note that Ubuntu 16 (I assume some others, too) refuses to hard link a > file to which the user cannot write. I don't remember if that is > traditional behaviour; I think not; it's probably SELinux. Ubuntu doesn't use SELinux (at least not by default or without significant work), but rather AppArmor. However, the hard-link protection is neither of those, but is rather a "protected_hardlinks" feature in the VFS introduced in Linux 3.6. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx] _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
