chown is not working for symbolic link or symlink

Aaladi – Under Tree

Aaladi is a short form of a tamil word “Aalamarathadi” means “under banyan tree”. Since olden days, it’s a custom and convenience for atleast tamil people to gather under banyan tree just to relax away from the hot sun, call it a “shadow bath” as opposed to sun bath, it may be not that sexy like sun bath. Also, its a place for most public gatherings to discuss or even argue, pronounce verdict and etc.

chown is not working for symbolic link or symlink

June 22, 2011 at 5:59 pm · Filed under Linux and tagged: change user for symlink, chown, symlink

I tried following command,

$ chown xyzuser mysymlink/

it doesn’t work. The issue is the “/” at the end and the option “-h” is missing. This option affects each symbolic link instead of any referenced file.

Here’s the right command,

$ chown -h xyzuser mysymlink

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