[Dnsmasq-discuss] failed to read symlink-files added by `list addnhosts '/etc/safe-search/enabled'`

[Gordon Shawn]

it has something to do with openwrt's ujail (seccomp) I believe, probably
to avoid symlink attacks? i.e. file works, symlink does not work.

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 2:19 PM Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can't imagine that dnsmasq would even know that the file it was opening
> was a symlink.  I'd suspect ownership or permissions.  The dnsmasq process
> in OpenWrt is run as the 'dnsmasq' user, so maybe 'chown dnsmasq:dnsmasq
> /etc/safe-search/enabled/*' or some variant would resolve your issue.
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 7:05 PM Gordon Shawn <capcoding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On the newest openwrt I installed 'safe-search' which has a few files
>> under /etc/safe-search/available/ and they're symlinked to
>> /etc/safe-search/enable/ by choice.
>>
>> dnsmasq reports it failed to load those symlinks under enable/
>>
>> if I remove the symlinks, and copy the real files over from available/,
>> dnsmasq read them all and works fine.
>>
>> can dnsmasq read addn-hosts files when they're symbolic links?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gordon
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