[luau] chmod link screwup kills samba, login

[Vince Hoang]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:10:16AM -0500, MonMotha wrote:
> Vince Hoang wrote:
> >IIRC, a recursive chmod should not follow symlinks unless the
> >chmod calls the symlink directly. Not that this helps your
> >situation, but more to understand why it happened.
> 
> Was it maybe a hard link for some reason?

You can only hard link a file on the same filesystem. Directories
do not apply. However, you can mount / under another directory
with a null/union mount using the --bind option. A recursive chmod
should propagate changes there.

-Vince