topic ln Ownership ?? in Operating System - HP-UX

ln Ownership ??

MikeL_4 — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:24:04 GMT

Is there a way to change ownership:group on a link ??

Currently have following:
drwxrwxrwx 18 applmgr oaa 1024 Apr 21 2002 tup_oe
lrwxr-x--- 1 root sys 6 Apr 21 2002 tup_oe_107 -> tup_oe

and need to change to match the real directory.

Thanks

Re: ln Ownership ??

Pete Randall — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:25:51 GMT

Remove the link and recreate it while logged in as applmgr.

Pete

Re: ln Ownership ??

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:29:00 GMT

Hi

It does not matter who owns the link. All it counts is the actual file ownership.

If you want to change the link, then do the following.

#rm tup_oe_107
#su - applmgr
$cd /this_directory
$ln -s tup_oe tup_oe_107

-Sri

Re: ln Ownership ??

Helen French — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:34:09 GMT

In link files, you don't need to worry about the ownership/permission of the file. It will check those properties from the original file.

Re: ln Ownership ??

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:34:11 GMT

Hi:

While the permissions or ownership of a symbolic link don't matter, you *can* change the ownership of the link with 'chown -h':

From the man pages for 'chown':

"By default, the owner or group of the target file that a symbolic link points to is changed. With -h, the target file that the symbolic link points to is not affected."

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: ln Ownership ??

Paul Sperry — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:34:32 GMT

Using chmod or chgrp on a link will only result in changing the directory it is pointing to. You must delete lhe link and then log in as applmgr and re-create it.

Re: ln Ownership ??

MikeL_4 — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:00:38 GMT

I guess I must have another problem then causing my permission problems with the version manager software they are trying to run.
Thanks for your help..