this may be a reminder from the old, broken days or just stolen fron
a broken system...
> Personally I think that it should resolve the symlink. Access and
> ownership should be controled by the file that the symlink points to.
at least for chown(1) this is a *bad* idea.
small example: you have to change the change the UID of a directory tree
from one user (e.g. moving to an other insitute; other working group etc.).
using
chown -R new_user.new_group ~new_user/.
may have *nasty* "side effects" when the user has a symbolic link like this one:
# ls -l ~new_user/private
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 old_user old_group 11 Jul 11 19:30 ATARI! -> /etc/passwd
Harald
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