[34907] in bugtraq
Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
Sat May 15 14:57:08 2004
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:58:09 +0100
From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange@nsk.no-ip.org>
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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
> > (*)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.
If the target belongs to the right person, not the symlink itself.
Regards,
Luciano Rocha
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