Why won chmod change the permissions on symlinks?
You have to use either “-H” or “-L” together with the “-R” option to make this work. See the chmod and symlink man pages for more info. WARNING the “-R” option does a RECURSIVE chmod. Be careful about specifying directories or symlinks to directories to chmod. If you want to change the permissions of a directory referenced by a symlink, use chmod without any options and follow the symlink with a trailing slash (“/”). For example, if “foo” is a symlink to directory “bar”, and you want to change the permissions of “foo” (actually “bar”), you would do something like: chmod 555 foo/ With the trailing slash, chmod will follow the symlink, “foo”, to change the permissions of the directory, “bar”.
