Why link resource doesn't have permission mode?

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the past few days I have been banging my head to the wall to solve a weird
ssh problem,
finally I found out chef creates all the links with permission 777 ( which
no decent SELinux would be happy with that)

so why link resource doesn't have permission mode in it ? is Chef open to
PullRequest if someone wants to add it ?

Best,
Medya

P.s:
read more about the weirdest SSH problem here
http://blog.medyagh.com/2015/03/the-wierdest-ssh-problem-selinux-dac-vs.html

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On 2015-03-17 12:42, Medya wrote:

the past few days I have been banging my head to the wall to solve a weird
ssh problem,
finally I found out chef creates all the links with permission 777 ( which
no decent SELinux would be happy with that)

so why link resource doesn't have permission mode in it ?

If I understand you correctly, you want to change the permission mode of a
symlink. You can use the mode attribute for that:

link '/...' do
to '...'
mode '0700'
end

is Chef open to PullRequest if someone wants to add it ?

Yes, it is:

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