Hi All, Solved. I finally found the source code generating the userContent page, which allowed me to find this page: https://www.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-security-advisory-2018-12-05. Conclusion setting an additional system property ' -Dhudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.allowSymlinkEscape=true' tells Jenkins' userContent to follow symbolic links again.
Have fun & Thanks (for Jenkins) Alex On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 9:08:51 AM UTC+1, Alex Chatziparaskewas wrote: > > Hi All, > > Using Jenkins version 2.157, we have been successfully using symbolic > links in the userContent directory for quite some time. These symbolic > links point to directories outside of Jenkins HOME directory. However, they > stopped working, indicated by a small ‘red’ emblem now shown on the > symbolic link names on Jenkin’s userContent page (see the picture below). > Symbolic links within the scope of the userContent directory still work as > expected. Jenkins, the symbolic links and the target directories all run or > belong to the same user. > > > > Two things happened in the context of this not working anymore: > > - - The target directories for the symbolic links got recreated > (not the first time, but this happens very seldom) > > - - Jenkins service was restarted (this is done even less seldom) > > > > I am a bit out of ideas. My best guess (or fear) is that security got > tightened a bit somewhere. Restructuring the directories is only > theoretically possible as there are tons of data behind the symbolic links > (might be easier to rebuild the build server or scrap the userContent > feature and use a dedicated HTTP server). > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Alex > > > [image: Jenkins userContent Symbolic Link.png] > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/a4d72b05-63f3-4f9f-8fb8-294290055af5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
