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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-09-21 12:39:13 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-09-21 12:39:13 -0400
commitd57325804d57faef755be86f330119cffe1d1bba (patch)
treeef31d92d17e6c563e626e34ea242a9ad000e3296 /Utility/SshConfig.hs
parent0535973adab83a9a73a399a6fa798629c0067633 (diff)
assistant: When updating ~/.ssh/config, preserve any symlinks.
Diffstat (limited to 'Utility/SshConfig.hs')
-rw-r--r--Utility/SshConfig.hs8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Utility/SshConfig.hs b/Utility/SshConfig.hs
index ca336a4b8..57e4f0f38 100644
--- a/Utility/SshConfig.hs
+++ b/Utility/SshConfig.hs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import Utility.FileMode
import Data.Char
import Data.Ord
import Data.Either
+import System.Directory
data SshConfig
= GlobalConfig SshSetting
@@ -117,8 +118,11 @@ changeUserSshConfig modifier = do
whenM (doesFileExist configfile) $ do
c <- readFileStrict configfile
let c' = modifier c
- when (c /= c') $
- viaTmp writeSshConfig configfile c'
+ when (c /= c') $ do
+ -- If it's a symlink, replace the file it
+ -- points to.
+ f <- catchDefaultIO configfile (canonicalizePath configfile)
+ viaTmp writeSshConfig f c'
writeSshConfig :: FilePath -> String -> IO ()
writeSshConfig f s = do