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| -rw-r--r-- | man/openrc-run.8 | 6 |
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diff --git a/man/openrc-run.8 b/man/openrc-run.8 index 1102daaa..ec4b88de 100644 --- a/man/openrc-run.8 +++ b/man/openrc-run.8 @@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ Mark the service as inactive. .Op Fl p , -pipe .Op Fl m , -mode Ar mode .Op Fl o , -owner Ar owner +.Op Fl s , -symlinks .Op Fl W , -writable .Op Fl q , -quiet .Ar path ... @@ -481,6 +482,11 @@ or with names, and are separated by a colon. The truncate options (-D and -F) cause the directory or file to be cleared of all contents. .Pp +If -s is not specified on a non-linux platform, checkpath will refuse to +allow non-terminal symbolic links to exist in the path. This is for +security reasons so that a non-root user can't create a symbolic link to +a root-owned file and take ownership of that file. +.Pp If -W is specified, checkpath checks to see if the first path given on the command line is writable. This is different from how the test command in the shell works, because it also checks to make sure the file |