On 02/06/2015 01:27 AM, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
On 05/02/15 19:20, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote:
their actual permissions are those of the target.
From what I understand (and tests I've done, and discussions on arch channels on IRC) their actual permissions are inherited from the directory they are in AND from the permissions of a target.
Actions that act on the target always inherit target permissions (read, write and execute). Actions that act on the link, however, always inherit the directory permissions (delete and move).
Delete and move always depend on the (parent) directory permission, whether you operate on a symlink, a file or a subdirectory.
This can be tested by symlinking a file from another user's home directory (which will obviously have to be done as root.
Actually, this does not need root. You can even create a symlink to a non-existing file if you want. Actually *accessing* the symlink is another matter of course. Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger@jabber.fr