file permission baffle
Ruben de Groot
fbsd-q at bzerk.org
Sun Mar 30 01:43:59 PST 2003
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:11:18AM -0500, David Banning typed:
> I have these links from my web directory;
>
> root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/
> root# ls -l
>
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle -> /usr/chantelle/fax
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david -> /usr/david/fax
>
> I can't change the permissions on them. It's because the permissions
> are dependent on the linked directory right? Doesn't seem so;
Permissions on symbolic links are irrelevant.
If you want to change them anyway, here's what you have to do:
# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/
# rm chantelle
# umask 0
# ln -s /usr/chantelle/fax chantelle
Don't forget to change your umask back to something reasonable afterwards.
>
> root# ls -ld /usr/chantelle/fax
> drwxrwxrwx 2 chantelle wheel 512 Mar 30 02:26 /usr/chantelle/fax
> root# ls -ld /usr/david/fax
> drwxrwxrwx 2 david wheel 512 Mar 30 02:40 /usr/david/fax
> root#
>
> Even going further upstream doesn't show anything;
>
> root# ls -ld /usr/chantelle
> drwxr-xr-x 7 chantelle wheel 1024 Mar 29 23:13 /usr/chantelle
> root# ls -ld /usr/david
> drwxr-xr-x 68 david wheel 5632 Mar 29 22:23 /usr/david
>
> I am having a problem writing to the top dir shown, (chantelle)
> but not the following one (david).
>
> Anyone understand this?
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