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Re: problems copying symlinks


From: Bill Gunter
Subject: Re: problems copying symlinks
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:47:43 -0600

Hmm, just noticed that after upgrading from 2.1.15 to 2.1.18 "cfagent
-vq" seg faults with 

Looking for an input file /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf
cf:cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf:3: Function or format of
input file requires 1 argument items
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:03 -0600, Mark Burgess wrote:
> 
> 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.  
> > > >  
> > >  
> > > 
> 
> 
-- 
Bill Gunter 
Assistant Director of Information Systems 
  
ARC Systems 
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