Re: problems copying symlinks

[Mark Burgess]

Look at the output of cfservd -d2 to see why this is happening. If you
are traversing links, that is not honoured by access control. This has
always been true
M

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 12:46 -0600, Bill Gunter wrote:
> v2.1.18 of cfservd (still v2.1.15 of cfagent) gives slightly different
> errors, but the same results. It says "Unspecified refusal by server"
> instead of "Host authorization/authentication failed or access denied"
> 
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 12:21 -0600, Mark Burgess wrote:
> > 
> > What does 2.1.18 do?
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:43 -0600, Bill Gunter wrote: 
> > > I've configured a copy directive and the symlinks that exist in the 
> > > directory being copied are not being copied, but all the regular
> > files 
> > > in the directory are being copied.  
> > >  
> > > cfservd is throwing this error for each symlink: 
> > >  
> > > Dec 29 11:34:58 HOST cfservd[12692]: [ID 823470 daemon.error]  Host 
> > > REMOTE denied access to /directory/symlink 
> > > Dec 29 11:34:58 HOST cfservd[12692]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Host 
> > > authorization/authentication failed or access denied 
> > > Dec 29 11:34:58 HOST cfservd[12692]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] From 
> > > (host=REMOTE,user=root,ip=::ffff:111.111.111.111) 
> > > Dec 29 11:34:58 HOST cfservd[12692]: [ID 823470 daemon.error]  ID
> > from 
> > > connecting host: (SYNCH 1135877698 STAT /directory/symlink) 
> > >  
> > > Here's the directive. 
> > >  
> > > class:: 
> > >   /directory 
> > >     server=$(server) 
> > >     dest=/remote_directory 
> > >     owner=root 
> > >     backup=false 
> > >     recurse=inf 
> > >     timestamps=keep 
> > >  
> > > I'm using v.2.1.15. 
> > > 
> > 
> >