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Bugtraq: Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.

Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.

From: David Malone <dwmalone_at_cnri.dit.ie>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:49:07 +0100

> (*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the
> ownership of a symlink. Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a
> program, there can exist programs which depend on it.

Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only follow
symlinks if they belong to the right person.

        David.
Received on May 14 2004

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