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Daniela Pinger
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‎11-23-2003 12:05 AM

‎11-23-2003 12:05 AM

Softlink

lrwx------ 1 root sys 16 Nov 18 03:30 scp -> /opt/ssh/bin/scp

chmod 755 scp
=> 700

I need 755! What can I do ?
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James Murtagh
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‎11-23-2003 12:50 AM

‎11-23-2003 12:50 AM

Re: Softlink

Hi Daniela,

The permissions of a symbolic link itself is ignored, it is only the permissions of the target file that you need be concerned with. The "ln" manpage discusses this in more depth.

cheers,

James.
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James Murtagh
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‎11-23-2003 01:03 AM

‎11-23-2003 01:03 AM

Re: Softlink

Thought I'd add, if you really wanted the permissions to be 755 for whatever reason you could alter your umask to be 022 and re-create the link :

# rm scp
# umask 022
# ln -s /opt/ssh/bin/scp scp
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Norman_21
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‎11-23-2003 01:16 AM

‎11-23-2003 01:16 AM

Re: Softlink

Another way:
#rm -i scp
#chmod 755 /opt/ssh/bin/scp
#ln -s /opt/ssh/bin/scp scp

Hope this help!
"Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching"/ My first point was given by SEP on January 31, 2003
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