chown how to change ownership on a symlink
If you just do a normal chown user.user somedir it won't work. You will see the ownership is still the previous owner.
How To Change Ownership Of Symlink:
The simplest part is just adding the -h which means no dereference so it applies the ownership on the symlink and does not try (and fail) to change ownership of the dereferenced symlink destination.
chown -h user.user somedir
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