homedirs: turn "informational error" into warning

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/firejail/main.c b/src/firejail/main.c
index 950146612..d1c41c58a 100644
--- a/src/firejail/main.c
+++ b/src/firejail/main.c
@@ -266,17 +266,16 @@ static void build_cfg_homedir(const char *dir) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "Error: invalid user directory \"%s\"\n", dir);
                 exit(1);
         }
-        // symlinks are rejected in many places, provide a solution for home directories
+        // symlinks are rejected in many places, offer a solution for home directories
         if (checkcfg(CFG_HOMEDIR_SYMLINK)) {
                 cfg.homedir = realpath(dir, NULL);
                 if (cfg.homedir)
                         return;
         }
         else if (has_link(dir)) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "Error: path of user directory contains a symbolic link. "
-                        "Please provide resolved path in password database (/etc/passwd) "
-                        "or enable symbolic link resolution in Firejail configuration file.\n");
-                exit(1);
+                fwarning("no full support for symbolic links in path of user directory.\n"
+                        "Please provide resolved path in password database (/etc/passwd)\n"
+                        "or enable symbolic link resolution in Firejail configuration file.\n\n");
         }
         cfg.homedir = clean_pathname(dir);
 }