allow symbolic links as profile names, fixing #1276

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/firejail/profile.c b/src/firejail/profile.c
index c515accc0..9ae2aa5b4 100644
--- a/src/firejail/profile.c
+++ b/src/firejail/profile.c
@@ -1089,12 +1089,8 @@ void profile_read(const char *fname) {
         }
 
         // check file
-        if (strlen(fname) == 0) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "Error: invalid profile file\n");
-                exit(1);
-        }
         invalid_filename(fname);
-        if (is_dir(fname) || is_link(fname) || strstr(fname, "..")) {
+        if (strlen(fname) == 0 || is_dir(fname)) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "Error: invalid profile file\n");
                 exit(1);
         }