how can I change user permission settings for an application

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Published on 2012-11-09T20:57:32Z Indexed on 2012/11/10 23:18 UTC
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I am trying to prevent the guest user from accessing software-center (I know it can't install anything, but I don't even want it to browse)

The file is owned by root and in group root.

I run: sudo chmod o= /usr/bin/software-center

Afterwards I run ls -l and get the following output: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Sep 10 14:28 /usr/bin/software-center -> ../share software- center/software-center

The first part of the output indicates chmod didn't do anything and the second part I don't understand.

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