js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora) (10/31/89)
I would like to set permissions on a symbolic link separately from the permissions on the linked-to file. I.e., I would like /foo to be writable if accessed as /foo , but I would like a symbolic link /bar/foo to it, which is read-only. Is this possible? If so, how? ls -l gives something like lrwxr-xr-x /bar/foo ... , but chmod follows the link and changes the permissions on the linked-to file. man chmod and man ln haven't been helpful. Please send email if you have a solution. (Note the expiration date; I'm trying to avoid getting eight zillion responses.) -- _____________________________________________________________________ Jay Sekora | js@phoenix.princeton.edu Information Centers Consultant | js@pucc.bitnet Princeton University | sekora-jay@cs.yale.edu