On Friday 13 Jun 2003 7:54 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030613 11:12]: > > I should add that the properties of the Graphics link show me as > > owner and group as user, while the properties of the OldHome link > > show root for both. I created them immediately consecutively, so > > there should be not difference in what I was doing. This is what > > happened: > > Right. Since you are the owner of the directory and the link, you > can change the group. You can't really change the owner, but since > you were assigning yourself as owner, it didn't object. > But it looks as though root owns the link to OldHome. At least that's what is shown in the properties box in kde.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ chown anne OldHome > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ chgrp users Oldhome > > chgrp: failed to get attributes of `Oldhome': No such file or > > directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ whoami > > anne > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ ls -l Gr* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 anne users 9 Jun 13 13:55 Graphics > > -> /Graphics/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ ls -l Old* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 anne users 13 Jun 13 13:57 OldHome > > -> /mnt/OldHome/ / > So is this actually giving me the details of the link OldHome, or the directory /mnt/OldHome? > It allowed you to change the group of the LINK, not the > /mnt/OldHome directory that the symlink links to. Notice who owns > /mnt ... root, right? Probably with these permissions: > > drwxr-xr-x ?? root root ?? mnt/ > > So nobody except root can mess with the /mnt directory. > All I wanted to do was change the icon on the link. I wasn't trying to do anything to the directory. > The reason the default permissions for a symlink are > > lrwxrwxrwx is that they don't really matter much. It is only a > pointer to a file or directory; the ownership on the target file or > directory is what determines who can do what. I do appreciate your patience in trying to explain to me. I'm really confused. Anne
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