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Bug #7060: cfengine stops processing a promise on symlinks

cfengine stops processing a promise on symlinks

Added by Benoît PECCATTE over 7 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

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When a symbolic link isn't owned by the same user as its tagrget, cfengine stops processing file promises.
This can stop an attack on code where there is a race condition, but in practice, ther should not be race conditions and there is a lot of legitimate systems with links that don't have the same owner as their target.
We should disable this behavior

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