Re: lynx-dev symlinks to other users' files; broken symlinks

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

One minor clarification: no special permissions need be set on a file to
allow symlinks to it. For example, I can symlink to the shadow password
file, /etc/tcc/passwd.adjunct, even though the permissions are:

----r-----   1 nobody   wheel   67757 Oct  9 15:02 /etc/tcc/passwd.adjunct

The way symlinks work is that when someone actually *uses* the symlink,
the permissions of the original file (in this case, 
/etc/tcc/passwd.adjunct) are used, not the apparent permissions of the
symlink. In fact, symlinks don't have real permissions, they're just
pointers to other files.