hello mark, if the permission of file is read only u cant save it force fully. but sometimes ur login from root user it asks for "!" sign. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Chet Nichols III <chet.nichols@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> why this command gives full > >> permission to soft link any reason behind this? > RHEL ignores whatever permissions are in the inode of the symlink, and only > looks at the permissions set in the inode of the file the symlink points > to. > The symlink is a complete reference to the file it points to. > > You will see, in the case of a symlink, if you try and change the > permissions on it, you'll actually end up changing the permissions of the > file it points to. > > The fun thing is, in the event of trying to remove/modify the symlink, it > will STILL only look at the permissions of the referenced file, which is > why > even though a symlink has full permissions, only people with permissions to > remove/modify the referenced file are the ones that can remove/modify the > symlink. > > Chet > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Raj Har <raj4list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > hello all, > > when we create soft link of any file like "ln -s > > /etc/passwd password". > > the permission of soft link "password" in this example" is > > lrwxrwxrwx but other user cant access it. why this command gives full > > permission to soft link any reason behind this? > > > > when we create file from vi editor we save from "wq" command but > sometimes > > we save it force fully "wq!". > > why force fully in necessary? > > > > thanks > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > chet nichols III > chet.nichols@xxxxxxxxx > aim: chet / twitter: chet > http://chetnichols.org > ---------------------------------------- > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
