Re: Fix posix 311 symlink creation mode

[Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>]

On 1/11/2023 11:51 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Am Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 10:21:07AM -0600 schrieb Steve French:
>> Should this be 0777 instead of 0644?
>>
>> I noticed the man page for symlink says:
>>
>>       "On Linux, the permissions of an ordinary symbolic link are not
>>         used in any operations; the permissions are always 0777 (read,
>>         write, and execute for all user categories), and can't be
>>         changed."
> 
> I thought about that as well. If you "ls -l" such a symlink once
> created, it will show as 0777, probably the client does it
> somehow. The problem however is that if you create it with 0777
> server-side, everybody can mess with that file that the client view as
> a symlink. That's why I thought that 0644 is the best approximation.

Yeah, because this is an mfsymlink, which is really just a file with
specific contents, you might even argue 0444 is safest.

Definitely not 0777.

Tom.