Re: preventing symlinks?

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Keith Keller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:56:07AM +1200, Smithies, Russell wrote:
>> This may be more of a general linux question but is there a simple way of preventing users from creating symlinks to or from certain directories?
>> I have a /scratch dir that's a single 27TB volume and I don't want users linking their home dirs as there's a chance it will screw up our external backups.
> 
> Can't your backups simply ignore symlinks?  Or (more sensibly) backup
> the symlinks as links, instead of dereferencing them?
> 
> Perhaps SELinux can do what you want, but it seems like overkill
> compared to telling the backup program what to backup (and what not).
> 
+10
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