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I am having issues with writing to the target folder of a symlink. The files can be read without any issues, but as soon as I try to upload something to the target folder I get a write permission error.

lrwxrwxrwx.  1 user1 user1   47 Mar 17 12:35 data -> /home/user2/public_html/apps/public/data/

The target folder has 0777 permissions and is owned by user2

drwxrwsrwx. 135 user2 user2 12288 Mar 16 10:18 .

What am I missing, why can't I write files/folders to the symlink target? I am running WHM/Cpanel on CentOS if that makes any difference. Cheers!

chrismaaz
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Most linux systems require a user's home directory to have 700 perms. user1 can't access user2's home directory or anything below it.

You should move these directories somewhere other than a user's home dir if you want multiple users to have access...i.e. /opt/ or /var/

Brandon DeYoung
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