Hi, Indeed you are right symlinks should not be overridden. I made a tentative of patch in linphone master:
6ce479b 2015-07-28 11:48:32 +0200 Gautier Pelloux-Prayer lpconfig.c: when reading linphonerc, we must follow symlinks This will probably break some other OS but the idea is there ;-). If you can compile it, let me know if it's working as expected for you. Otherwise, it will be ready for next release which is not planned yet. Cheers, Gautier Pelloux-Prayer Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications > On 24 Jul 2015, at 04:41, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear developers, > > There is the following bug in recent version(s) of Linphone on Linux: If one > moves the /home/[username]/.linphonerc file to a different location and > replaces it with a soft link instead, the link gets overwritten with the > actual file when Linphone starts. > > I don't know when it started, just that it was not there in around April > versions and is present now. > > Test procedure: > 1. Make sure that Linphone is closed completely (i.e. it's not present in the > task bar) > 2. Move both, /home/[username]/.linphonerc and > /home/[username]/.linphone-history.db to a different drive (with a different > file system) and place (soft) links to them in the original location. > 3. Start Linphone (and let it sign into a previously configured SIP account) > > Expected results: > 3. Both links stay being links > > Actual results: > 3. /home/[username]/.linphone-history.db stays being a link, while > /home/[username]/.linphonerc is overwritten with the actual file. > > Note: This may have privacy/security implications if, e.g., the actual files > (containing account names and passwords, etc.) had been moved to, e.g. an > encrypted drive, but then re-appear in the unencrypted home directory again, > in plain text - possibly without the user noticing. > > Linphone 3.8.5, as provided by ppa:linphone/release; Linux Mint 17.1 (based > on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty), 64 bit. > > Kind regards, > > Hannes > > _______________________________________________ > Linphone-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users _______________________________________________ Linphone-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users
