Changing permissions (mode) of a soft symlink

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Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 06:06:20 EST

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Hi Managers,

I have a (soft) symlink to /dev/null. The permissions of /dev/null itself are correct, and these are the effective permissions of anyone trying to access the symlink. However I wish to change the permissions and ownership of the link (not the target) in order to meet a security audit requirement. In the case of the ownership, this is done with:-

chown -h newowner link

but the equivalent for chmod does not work -- it does not accept the '-h' argument (however, this works in Linux IIRC). Is it possible to change the permissions of a link under Solaris?

Will summarise

Thanks

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