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Re: problems copying symlinks
From: |
Mark Burgess |
Subject: |
Re: problems copying symlinks |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:03:18 +0100 |
That is a documented security feature, not a bug.
M
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:06 -0600, Bill Gunter wrote:
> Okay, found the problem with the symlinks. Apparently the access control
> is getting confused. I've allowed access with
>
> admit:
> cfengine_server::
> /directory *.domain.com
>
> But the copy directive says
>
> class::
> /symlink_to_directory
>
> This works with regular files contained in /directory but not with
> symlinks to files in the same directory. I changed the copy directive to
> use the actual directory and not the symlink to it and it works fine.
> This seems like a bug to me.
>
>
> 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.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
- problems copying symlinks, Bill Gunter, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Mark Burgess, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Bill Gunter, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Mark Burgess, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Bill Gunter, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Bill Gunter, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks,
Mark Burgess <=
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Bill Gunter, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Mark Burgess, 2005/12/29
- Re: problems copying symlinks, Bill Gunter, 2005/12/30