Re: [SLE] ln -s doesn't work with a folder

On Saturday 15 April 2006 21:31, Ted Harding wrote:
On 15-Apr-06 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
as root if I do:

ln -s /home/steve/Desktop/dogs /home/lynn/Desktop

Then user lynn fires up kde, the link doesn't appear as a folder but an
empty
file icon. Root can see the link fine however.

How can I make the link so that it works properly?
SuSE 10.0
Thanks, Steve.

I think you'll find it's a matter of permissions.

If (as user lynn) you do the simple console command

ls /home/lynn/Desktop

you will probably get "permission denied". Although
root owns the symbolic link, despite the link itself
having permissions rwxrwxrwx, when lynn tries to access
the folder linked to, lynn will come against the fact
that the true owner of it is steve. And this will remain
true even if root does

chown lynn.users /home/lynn/Desktop

I'm not sure of the best solution here! It depends on
why you want to give Lynn access to steve's Desktop.

Ted.


Thanks. I think I'm getting there:
Sometimes lynn will edit files in the folder and sometimes steve will edit
files in the folder. We don't want two copies of the same files.

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