X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=safcm%2Fsafcm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.adoc;h=d65e2b0f181fcd3493c03fcc988fc5ef247afae2;hp=2471f92d1b9b4e0fdd5785c68af4adc8b3d1c7d8;hb=5dca1e53d7fa0c2b7c15bbcec5654638727f9009;hpb=b2468269ff2393b6fd71f1c129288c751a8f73ee diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 2471f92..d65e2b0 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ future, others are due to the design of safcm. result is similar -- but not identical -- to quoted strings in regular shell scripts which can be confusing. +- Permissions of symlinks are ignored on BSD systems. They are always shown to + have `0777` as permissions even though the current umask controls the actual + permissions when creating new symlinks. Existing symlinks with different + permissions are not updated. Most BSDs ignore the permissions when following + symlinks which should reduce the impact of this limitation. + == Requirements @@ -128,6 +134,8 @@ future, others are due to the design of safcm. * Supported operating system: ** GNU/Linux with common commands (`uname`, `id`, `stat`, `sha512sum`, `cat`, `mktemp`, `rm`, `ln`, `chmod`) + ** FreeBSD (same commands, but uses `sha512`) + ** OpenBSD (same commands, but uses `sha512`) * SSH server * to install packages: ** `apt-get` (Debian or derivative)