Has anyone seen this before?

[jwocky]

I started some cleanup on my 767 stuff and now on FG2016, I noticed in my terminal

Aircraft/767/Models/Liveries/Aero/767-Workshop
directory(): listing '/' denied (unauthorized directory - authorization no longer follows symlinks; to authorize reading additional directories, add them to --fg-aircraft)

Has anybody seen this before? It seems to be new with FG2016?

[IAHM-COL]

yes. I've heard of that error message. Don't understand it quite well yet (and havent seen it myself, luckily, but , I believe has to do with symbolic links to or within nasal).
IH-COL

[sanhozay]

It's part of the tightening up of security done by Rebecca Palmer. You'll find things like saving routes from route manager more difficult because Flightgear has been locked down against making changes outside its authorized directories, including via symbolic links on Linux/Mac OS. It's a good thing, but security can be irritating in daily use. A search on the mailing list archives might give some clues.

I don't know what it means about adding things to --fg-aircraft, I don't understand that.

[jwocky]

Well well well, this is a messup then, not security because look at the path ...

Aircraft/767/Models/Liveries/Aero/767-Workshop

This is when I pull the FDM with <aero>Aero/767-Workshop</aero> from the set-file. So "security" in its infinite wisdom is now looking in Model/Liveries for the FDM files? As it looks, the whole thing is messed up because something believes, Aircraft/767/Models/Liveries is the default directory and it is somehow not under Aircraft/767 but somewhere in a link (which it isn't). Or we just see the newest version of the JPack-killer because that one is Aircraft/JPack? Also not a link though.

[IAHM-COL]

How does the nasal for the liveries look like?

[sanhozay]

I looked at the code (https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fl ... salSys.cxx, around line 579) and, based on how the message is put together, it's complaining about "/" not your 767 directory.

Also note the comment on line 584: "to avoid breaking dialogs, pretend it doesn't exist rather than erroring out". I think this could be coming from a standard Flightgear dialog.