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Why will chmod not change the permissions on symlinks?

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Why will chmod not change the permissions on symlinks?

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Symlinks do not have permissions, and by default, chmod(1) will not follow symlinks to change the permissions on the target file. So if you have a file, foo, and a symlink to that file, bar, then this command will always succeed.

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