Bug 127636 - Permissions of symlink /usr/share/dict/words are rwxr-xr-x
Summary: Permissions of symlink /usr/share/dict/words are rwxr-xr-x
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: words
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-07-11 22:29 UTC by Alexandre Costa
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-08 17:37:59 UTC
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Description Alexandre Costa 2004-07-11 22:29:19 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; .NET CLR 
1.1.4322)

Description of problem:
I'm not sure if this is a real bug, but as far as i know a symlink 
should always have 777 permissions.

well, i guess there is nothing else to say.. heres the output.. i've 
checked other versions, and only RHEL has this.. RHEL ES here. not 
sure about AS, WS or Desktop.

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       409305 Feb  5  2003 linux.words
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Mar 12 03:07 words -> 
linux.words

If it is normal, can someone explain how to do this ? (i've already 
googled a lot and found nothing about it)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2-21

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ls -l /usr/share/dict/words
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Mar 12 
03:07 words -> linux.words

Expected Results:  maybe lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 
Mar 12 03:07 words -> linux.words ?????

Additional info:
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2004-11-08 17:37:59 UTC 
3-1 (in rawhide) will be in the next updates
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