Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes: > Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com> writes: > > > You want lchown. Note that it's only available as a system call. > > In chown (GNU fileutils) 4.0: > > -h, --no-dereference affect symbolic links instead of any > referenced file (available only on > systems that can change the ownership of > a symlink) This has been reported as bug #30184. Martin.