diff -Naur monkeysphere-0.24.orig/src/share/common monkeysphere-0.24/src/share/common
--- monkeysphere-0.24.orig/src/share/common	2009-03-03 14:02:00.000000000 -0300
+++ monkeysphere-0.24/src/share/common	2009-06-28 22:39:37.000000000 -0300
@@ -415,6 +415,11 @@
     uname="$1"
     path="$2"
 
+    # rewrite path if it points to a symlink
+    if [ -h "$path" ] ; then
+      path="`readlink $path`"
+    fi
+
     log debug "checking path permission '$path'..."
 
     # return 255 if cannot stat file