Link permissions

[stephenk1973]

Sorry to maybe ask an obvious questions but i only touch on UNIX once in the blue moon. I have a created a symbollic link between two directories, however the permissions on the target directory does not give read permissions to the owner of the destination directory. What ways are there around this?

Thanks

Stephen

 

[PHV]

If a user has no read permissions on a directory then, eh, he can't read the directory ...

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[stephenk1973]

I was wondering if there a way of having permissions set when creating the link as part of the link command?

 

[KenCunningham]

Not unless you wrap the link command to include a chmod beforehand, presumably?

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