From 9d0eb248fd7965df843665dbd179bb6493f8d9c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:52 -0400
Subject: resolve symlinks when checking path permissions

Thanks to Silvio Rhatto for the patch.  This should close MS bug #917
---
 src/share/common | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/share')

diff --git a/src/share/common b/src/share/common
index 11e7969..bd887d3 100644
--- a/src/share/common
+++ b/src/share/common
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ check_key_file_permissions() {
 
     log debug "checking path permission '$path'..."
 
+    # rewrite path if it points to a symlink
+    if [ -h "$path" ] ; then
+	path=$(readlink -f "$path")
+	log debug "checking path symlink '$path'..."
+    fi
+
     # return 255 if cannot stat file
     if ! stat=$(ls -ld "$path" 2>/dev/null) ; then
         log error "could not stat path '$path'."
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