How to change permissions for symbolic links

[Rahul Pednekar]

Hello All,

Is there any way to change the permissions to 777 for softlink files??

lrwxr-x--- 1 root   sys 31 May 3 23:17 link_3486 -> /dev/vg01_19/link_3486

I have hundreds of them to change and I dont really want to recreate those after changing umask. ;))))

Thanks,

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[Bill Hassell]

The lchmod.c code by Clay will help (attached):

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Permission-on-Symbolic-links/td-p/3624264

[Dennis Handly]

>Is there any way to change the permissions to 777 for softlink files??

Why do you care?  The permissions on symlinks are just an illusion.

Only the link target permissions are important.