A symbolic link is a special file which is a reference to another file (or folder) in your filesystem. By following the link, you reach the file or folder referred to - the link is generally transparent.
By default, a kpf share does not allow the following of
symbolic links. This means that, for example, if you have a
share pointing to /your/home/folder/public_html
and you create a link inside public_html
, pointing to
/tmp
, then anyone
requesting /tmp
will
see the contents of your /tmp
folder.
In general, it's a bad idea to allow the following of symbolic links in this way. The main reason this is allowed is so that you may have symbolic links inside the shared folder, which point to another place inside the shared folder. This can be useful if you're serving up an entire “website” - which as mentioned previously, is not the intended use of kpf.
Just be careful not to link to anywhere on your file system that might hold sensitive information (or have a symbolic link in it somewhere that points to sensitive information!)
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