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chown is not changing symbolic link

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026378998 views
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Problem

I'm trying to change the user/group of a symbolic link with the command: But it's not changing. I'm logged in as root. The current user/group is set to root:root. What went wrong?

Error Output

$ chown -h myuser:mygroup mysymbolic/

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Fix for: chown is not changing symbolic link

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I was putting a slash in the end of target: just removed the slash in the end and works. Here's the correct way:

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