From: Franek Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:42:22 +0000 (-0400) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20140102~50 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/a6018f13fa25650b6f68a48c96c3a985eb298f1c --- diff --git a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn index 5f2d45b2d..48e0079f7 100644 --- a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -(NOTE: There are artificial whitespaces in the path to shortcuts.mdwn above, because on my first attempt to save this entry I got a message that Blogspam would not allow it because of the length of this string. Also, I had to reformat some of the links, which where to long for BlogSpam as well.) +(NOTE: There are artificial whitespaces in the path to shortcuts.mdwn below, because on my first attempt to save this entry I got a message that Blogspam would not allow it because of the length of this string. Also, I had to reformat some of the links, which where to long for BlogSpam as well.) Ikiwiki is not usable when installed to a user’s $HOME with toast ([[http://www.toastball.net/toast/]]), as toast installs everything as symlinks, which Ikiwiki does not take well: $ ikiwiki --rebuild --setup Testwiki.setup cannot read a symlink (/home/franek/.toast/armed/usr/ local/share/ikiwiki/ basewiki/shortcuts.mdwn) -I am aware that Ikiwiki does not allow symlinks in srcdir for security reasons http://ikiwiki.info/ [no space here, see below] security/#index18h2. I do not see, however, why this restriction should apply to basewiki or other not user-created files, which are not modifiable by committers anyway. +I am aware that Ikiwiki does not allow symlinks in srcdir for security reasons http://ikiwiki.info/ [no space here, see above note] security/#index18h2. I do not see, however, why this restriction should apply to basewiki or other not user-created files, which are not modifiable by committers anyway. If this is correct, can that be fixed (easily)?