On 02/06/2015 01:27 AM, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
> On 05/02/15 19:20, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote:
>> their actual permissions are those of the target.
>
> From what I understand (and tests I've done, and discussions on arch
> channels on IRC) their actual permissions are inherited from the
> directory they are in AND from the permissions of a target.
>
> Actions that act on the target always inherit target permissions (read,
> write and execute). Actions that act on the link, however, always
> inherit the directory permissions (delete and move).
>
Delete and move always depend on the (parent) directory permission,
whether you operate on a symlink, a file or a subdirectory.
> This can be tested by symlinking a file from another user's home
> directory (which will obviously have to be done as root.
Actually, this does not need root. You can even create a symlink to a
non-existing file if you want. Actually *accessing* the symlink is
another matter of course.
Jerome
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