Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:05:09 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Cc: sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu (Security Administrator) Subject: Re: chown,chgrp Message-ID: <19970821080509.CY28575@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199708210523.BAA29273@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>; from Security Administrator on Aug 21, 1997 01:23:15 -0400 References: <199708210523.BAA29273@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>
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As Security Administrator wrote: > I'm sure that this has been covered at great length, but I've missed the > discussion. Does anyone know that chgrp and chown are broken on > symbolic links. Even if I specify the -RH, -RL, or -RHL flags (I tried > each combination), it didn't work. j@uriah 200% ln -s foo . j@uriah 201% ls -l foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 j bin 3 Aug 21 08:00 foo@ -> foo j@uriah 202% chgrp -h cvs foo j@uriah 203% ls -l foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 j cvs 3 Aug 21 08:00 foo@ -> foo Note that if you're using a historic version of 4.4BSD (anything prior to 2.2.2, or prior to 1997/03/31 in -current for FreeBSD), this was broken on purpose; symlinks didn't have user-changeable attributes there at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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