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TS6.5 iwgroup and symlinks

Adam Stoller

While I'd like an office engineering response, I figured I'd also check with other folks for empirical data as well.

The iwgroup CLT needs to be run as root (known issues - already posted about)
The iwgroup CLT has an addmembers sub-command
The addmembers sub-command allows for a '-if' flag to specify an XML formatted file that should be used for the input.

I have variants of such an XML file (e.g. groups.DEV, groups.TEST, groups.PROD) so I make a symlink (I'm on Solaris 9) so that /.../groups.xml -> /..../groups.DEV

As myself (without even sudo) I can do read the contents of groups.DEV via the symlink groups.xml.

I then run: sudo iwgroup addmembers -if /..../groups.xml
and it errors out saying that it is unable to open file /.../groups.xml

Can anyone else reproduce this on their system?
Can anyone explain why iwgroup seems unable to read the contents of a file through a symlink?

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

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skip11

Hi ghoti,

Is it a hard or soft symlink ? If you post the groups.xml file, I'll take a crack at reproducing it.

Regards,

R.Barger
Credit Suisse Group
Zurich, Switzerland

skip11

HI,

I reproduced it with a soft link. It worked nicely with a hard link.

Regards,

R.Barger
Credit Suisse Group
Zurich, Switzerland

Adam Stoller

It was a soft-link - and that's what I want. A hard link is the same as a copy in terms of what I would need to do in order to maintain it.
I've opened a case with Support - waiting to hear whether they classify this as a bug or feature request.
Thanks though, for verifying the issue.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

skip11

Hi,

Did you specify a relative or an absolute path in the ln -s syntax ? I tried both and it didn't work for either.

Regards,

R.Barger
Credit Suisse Group
Zurich, Switzerland

Adam Stoller

I tried both too - same result.
I can't think of a decent *intentional* reason to fail to read through a symlink - and if was intentional the error message should be clearer - so from my perspective this is a bug. We'll see what they have to say...

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com