Do not follow links when doing "chown" #3156
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There is a potential issue with allowing a "chown" operation to follow user-created links, so let's limit any use of that function to "lchown" - which directs the "chown" operation to NOT follow a link.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Castain rhc@pmix.org
(cherry picked from commit ae62cdf) (cherry picked from commit da03693)