How to rm a symbolic link?

[Bing-Feng Wang]

I have a link with a priviledge of 777 , but the owner is root.
how can I rm it?

[Dave Uhring]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:11:32 -0400, Bing-Feng Wang wrote:

> I have a link with a priviledge of 777 , but the owner is root.
> how can I rm it?

# rm /path_to/name_of_link

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3F259F94.36459A5C@nortelnetworks.com>,
Bing-Feng Wang <bingfeng@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

>I have a link with a priviledge of 777 , but the owner is root.
>how can I rm it?

The owner and permissions of a symbolic link are mostly meaningless. And
for any type of file, removing it depends on permissions on the directory,
not the file itself (although if the directory's sticky bit is set then the
ownership of the file comes into play).

If you have write permission to the directory, you should be able to remove
anything in it.

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[M. Bouherrou]

"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email]pan.2003.07.28.22.24.12.17978@yahoo.com[/email]...

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:11:32 -0400, Bing-Feng Wang wrote:
>

> > I have a link with a priviledge of 777 , but the owner is root.

by default, soft links are set to 777, this is not a problem, as the system
will check first permissions on the link and then the final file.

> > how can I rm it?

>
> # rm /path_to/name_of_link
>

[Anthony Mandic]

Bing-Feng Wang wrote:

>
> I have a link with a priviledge of 777 , but the owner is root.
> how can I rm it?

Well? What is the problem? Why can't you?

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