Linux - Chown for symbolic link, Change ownership for symbolic link

Chown for symbolic link

The chown command changes the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files. Symbolic links named by arguments are silently left unchanged unless -h is used.

Changing the owner of a symbolic link needs special attention. When you use chown the regular way to change the owner of a symbolic link, then you are actually changing the target the symbolic link points to.

To change the owner of a symbolic link only you can use chown with the -h switch:

 # chown -h user:group symboliclink

To change the owner of the target the symbolic link points to:

 # chown user:group symboliclink

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