Jul 8, 2009 Posted by Sean

Changing Symlink Ownership

I just encountered the Curious Case of changing the ownership of a symbolic link.  I used chown and then…what happened is…well nothing.  Or least that’s how it looked.  There was no error message and the symlink’s ownership was unchanged. This seemed sub-optimal so I asked Google and a few colleagues and I got the answer, more than once, that you can’t change the ownership... read more