The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 7, 2022 18:56 UTC (Thu) by bartoc (guest, #124262)
In reply to: The trouble with symbolic links by iabervon
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

this is a bad idea. You want to be able to use symlinks to point an unsuspecting application somewhere else. The trouble comes when the unsuspecting app has a higher privilege level than the symlink creator.