[CentOS] strange chgrp behavior
Tomas Ruprich
ruprich at uikt.mendelu.cz
Thu Aug 30 17:39:08 UTC 2007
Thu, Aug 30, 2007 ve 06:05:49PM +0200, Tomas Ruprich napsal:
> Greetings,
> i had a following problem, which on one side i have already solved, but
> on other side i don't thing it should behave this way and wish somebody to
> tell if it is feature or bug ;-)
>
> [root at machine home]# chown user user/
> [root at machine home]# ls -ld /home/user
> drwxr-xr-x 66 user staff 4096 /home/user
> [root at machine home]# chgrp -R staff user/
> [root at machine home]# ls -ld user/
> drwxr-xr-x 66 root staff 4096 user/
> ^^^^^^
just to be accurate, this doesn't happen when using --no-dereference and it is not
changing permissions to root, but to user who is the owner of the link, so:
[root at machine home]# ls -la user/.openoffice/user/work
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody root 13 Aug 28 14:35 user/.openoffice/user/work -> /home/user
[root at machine home]# ls -ld /home/user
drwxr-xr-x 66 user staff 4096 /home/user
[root at machine home]# chgrp -R staff user/
[root at machine home]# ls -ld user/
drwxr-xr-x 66 nobody staff 4096 user/
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