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From: js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: permissions on symbolic links
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Date: 30 Oct 89 22:35:43 GMT
Expires: 31 Oct 89 15:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora)
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I would like to set permissions on a symbolic link separately from the
permissions on the linked-to file.  I.e., I would like /foo to be writable
if accessed as /foo , but I would like a symbolic link /bar/foo to it, which
is read-only.  Is this possible?  If so, how?  ls -l gives something like
lrwxr-xr-x /bar/foo ...
, but chmod follows the link and changes the permissions on the linked-to
file.  man chmod and man ln haven't been helpful.

Please send email if you have a solution.  (Note the expiration date; I'm
trying to avoid getting eight zillion responses.)
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Jay Sekora		             |       js@phoenix.princeton.edu
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