Bug 693594

Summary: [OVAL] file_object symlink collection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brady Alleman <balleman-rh>
Component: openscapAssignee: Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: dkopecek, pvrabec, sgrubb, theinric
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Description Brady Alleman 2011-04-05 02:02:35 UTC
Description of problem:
OVAL does not collect items for symlink targets.

How reproducible:
Collect something like this:
<file_object id="oval:com.example.unix:obj:1" version="1"
comment="afile">
        <behaviors recurse_direction="down" recurse="symlinks">
        <path>/etc</path>
        <filename>grub.conf</filename>
</file_object> 

System state:
[root@pine oval]# ls -l /etc/grub.conf 
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Jul 17  2009 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
[root@pine oval]# ls -lL /etc/grub.conf 
-rw-------. 1 root root 1488 Feb 12 09:52 /etc/grub.conf

Actual results:
Object does not exist.

Expected results:
Collect item representing link target.

Comment 1 Brady Alleman 2011-04-05 02:03:53 UTC
Created attachment 489897 [details]
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Comment 2 Tomas Heinrich 2011-04-05 13:08:08 UTC
Thanks for the report.
This should be fixed with this commit:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=openscap.git;a=commit;h=ddce2a4c0190ff72d51f1489612cfe7be710f04e

The item should probably represent the link itself, though.

Comment 3 Brady Alleman 2011-04-11 03:27:34 UTC
The fix works for me as you've stated, collecting the link itself.  

Regarding link itself vs target, some traffic on the oval-developers list suggests that the OVAL recurse symlinks behavior is expected to dereference symlinks.  If it should not, I'd encourage discussing the reasoning on the list, to benefit the OVAL community.
Thread:  http://oval.mitre.org/community/archives.html#nabble-td6158009

Thanks!

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