CHMOD on a symbolic link

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From: Carl Sandland
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 23:33

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	Hi, I have a small question to ask, we are currently creating a TEST
environment for our software, and we have all this data sitting around that
we want test access but with DIFFERENT PERMISSIONS. We don't want to
make a copy of the data, SO... can we set up a symbolic link to the data dir
and change the permission OF THAT LINK to read only. ie the TEST env can
read it but not modify it....

	eg
		ln -s /progs/INSTALLED/data /progs/TEST/data

	I don't think this can be done, but it's not an unreasonable idea.

					Thanks

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From: carl@bain3.bain.oz.au (Carl Sandland)
Subject: CHMOD on a symbolic link
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