soft link

[Joy Methew]

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 at gmail.com>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 at gmail.com> 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
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