Why can't one change the permissions of links which are rwxrwxrwx ?
Issue
- The permissions of
/bin/cshcan't be changed. See the following.
[root@test ~]# which csh
/bin/csh
[root@test ~]# ls -l /bin/csh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 28 2014 /bin/csh -> tcsh
[root@test ~]# ls -l /bin/tcsh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 383016 Dec 18 2012 /bin/tcsh
[root@test ~]# chmod 755 /bin/csh
[root@test ~]# ll /bin/csh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 28 2014 /bin/csh -> tcsh
- Why can't one change the permissions of links?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7
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