[chef] Re: Why link resource doesn't have permission mode ?

[Xabier de Zuazo < >]

On 2015-03-17 12:42, Medya wrote:
> the past few days I have been banging my head to the wall to solve a weird
> ssh problem,
> finally I found out chef creates all the links with permission 777 ( which
> no decent SELinux would be happy with that)
> 
> so why link resource doesn't have permission mode in it ?

If I understand you correctly, you want to change the permission mode of a
symlink. You can use the mode attribute for that:

link '/...' do
  to '...'
  mode '0700'
end

https://docs.chef.io/resource_link.html#attributes

> is Chef open to PullRequest if someone wants to add it ?

Yes, it is:

https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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