From ce387e03283dd625c25af115b3a278d80002232c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?V=C3=ADctor=20Mart=C3=ADnez=20Bevi=C3=A0?=
 <6623606+vicmarbev@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:21:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add hint to symlink error message (#647)

---
 pkg/files/symlink.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/files/symlink.go b/pkg/files/symlink.go
index 056fe861..91b3bcf3 100644
--- a/pkg/files/symlink.go
+++ b/pkg/files/symlink.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func (s Symlink) IsAllowed(opts SymlinkAllowOpts) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	return fmt.Errorf("Expected symlink file '%s' -> '%s' to be allowed, but was not", s.path, dstPath)
+	return fmt.Errorf("Expected symlink file '%s' -> '%s' to be allowed, but was not (hint: symlinks are disallowed as a security feature, use '--allow-symlink-destination' flags to override)", s.path, dstPath)
 }
 
 func (s Symlink) isIn(path, allowedPath string) (bool, error) {