On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 18:29 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have got CentOS 64bit running on a Dell PowerEdge SC1850 with hardware raid 1. My LVM partions donot seem to honour chown commands for symbolic links. Is this normal? All other files and directories honour it.
IIRC, symlinks never take any other ownership or group or permissions. Makes sense if you think in terms of security being provided by those attributes of the target. Regardless of symlink settings, what would happen if target attributes were changed and owner of symlink changed its attributes? Who rules the roost? If you own the file, you may not even know that someone created a symlink. You don't know the symlink owner is spying/corrupting/spreading your data.
That assumes basic access control.
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