Re: Trying to setup obexd but Operation not permitted

[deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> Can it be that obexd is allergic to symbolic links ?
> 
>
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cannot-receive-file-over-bluetooth/1813/3
> points to
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/obexd/plugins/filesystem.c#n95
> which spews -EPERM if not obex_option_symlinks() is true.
> 
> Above discussion raises the question whether option --symlinks with
> manually started obexd does help ?
> 
> It is remarkably difficult to find documentation about obexd's options.
> My best catch is source code like:
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/obexd/src/main.c#n141
> 
> { "symlinks", 'l', [...]
> "Allow symlinks leading outside of the root "
> "folder" },

Yes with this option it is working. I still wonder why this is necessary and
yes it is hard to find documentation.

thanks for the hint

regards

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