diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 5c6251763..429000e51 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-02-04  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* path.cc (symlink): Create security attributes so that only the
+	user can modify the symlink.
+	* security.cc (set_security_attribute): Remove symlink special
+	handling.
+
 2003-02-04  Pierre Humblet  <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
 
 	* grp.cc (internal_getgroups): Do not return without closing
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index 1d754be33..fe6d25586 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -2643,7 +2643,7 @@ symlink (const char *topath, const char *frompath)
     }
 
   if (allow_ntsec && win32_path.has_acls ())
-    set_security_attribute (S_IFLNK | S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO,
+    set_security_attribute (S_IFLNK | STD_RBITS | STD_WBITS,
 			    &sa, alloca (4096), 4096);
 
   h = CreateFile (win32_path, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, &sa,
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/security.cc b/winsup/cygwin/security.cc
index 224eff438..f72b89672 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/security.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/security.cc
@@ -1853,10 +1853,6 @@ void
 set_security_attribute (int attribute, PSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES psa,
 			void *sd_buf, DWORD sd_buf_size)
 {
-  /* symlinks are anything for everyone! */
-  if ((attribute & S_IFLNK) == S_IFLNK)
-    attribute |= S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO;
-
   psa->lpSecurityDescriptor = sd_buf;
   InitializeSecurityDescriptor ((PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR) sd_buf,
 				SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_REVISION);