Directory in etc directory becomes owner root after reboot

[rhermsen]

As part of the extension I made the directory /usr/local/etc/frr owned by tc:staff

I expected this ownership to become default after each reboot.
But a reboot causes the directory to become owned by root.
This is also the case of any subdirectories.
Is this expected?

The files in this directory do stay owned by tc:staff.

Any advice to best change ownership e.g. using bootlocal.sh or better by the install script (tce.installed)?

# Below output shows the unsquashed extension has the intended ownership.

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$ sudo unsquashfs frr.tcz
Parallel unsquashfs: Using 1 processor
99 inodes (4108 blocks) to write
[==============================================================================================/] 4207/4207 100%
created 89 files
created 15 directories
created 10 symlinks
created 0 devices
created 0 fifos
created 0 sockets
created 0 hardlinks
$ cd squashfs-root/usr/local/etc/
$ ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            60 Mar 11 14:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           160 Mar 11 14:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 tc       staff           60 Mar 11 14:07 frr/

# Below output after a reboot.
# The files are still owned by tc:staff, but the directories changed to root:root

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$ ls -la /usr/local/etc/frr/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           120 Mar 11 15:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           320 Mar 11 15:47 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff         4216 Mar 11 07:49 daemons
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff            0 Mar 11 07:49 frr.conf
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           100 Mar 11 15:47 ns-frr/
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff           58 Mar 11 07:49 vtysh.conf
$ ls -la /usr/local/etc/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           320 Mar 11 15:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root           220 Mar 11 15:47 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            60 Jan 25 22:42 X11/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           459 Dec 30  2022 bashrc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            45 Mar 11 15:47 ematch_map -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/ematch_map
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           100 Nov 10  2019 fonts/
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           120 Mar 11 15:47 frr/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            40 Mar 11 15:47 group -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/group
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            60 Dec  7 13:52 init.d/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            45 Mar 11 15:47 rt_dsfield -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/rt_dsfield
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            44 Mar 11 15:47 rt_protos -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/rt_protos
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            44 Mar 11 15:47 rt_realms -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/rt_realms
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            44 Mar 11 15:47 rt_scopes -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/rt_scopes
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            44 Mar 11 15:47 rt_tables -> /tmp/tcloop/iproute2/usr/local/etc/rt_tables
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           300 Mar 11 15:47 ssh/
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root           280 Mar 11 15:47 ssl/


[rhermsen]

I decided to change ownership via the install scrip (tce.installed).

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if [ -d /usr/local/etc/frr ]; then
        chown -R tc:staff /usr/local/etc/frr
fi/usr/local/etc/frr is now correctly owned by tc:staff.

But after a reboot /usr/local/etc/frr/ns-frr is still changed to root:root

The directory /usr/local/etc/frr/ns-frr is created once during bootup by the bootlocal.sh script.

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[ ! -d "/usr/local/etc/frr/ns-frr" ] && sudo -u tc mkdir -p  /usr/local/etc/frr/ns-frr/
I unzipped the /mnt/vda1/tce/mydata.tgz in tmp and in this file the permissions are correct.

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tc@testapps:/tmp/mydata$ tree -pug
.
|-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  etc
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  group
|   |-- [-rw-r----- tc       staff   ]  gshadow
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  inetd.conf
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  passwd
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  services
|   `-- [-rw-r----- tc       staff   ]  shadow
|-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  home
|   `-- [drwxr-x--- tc       staff   ]  tc
|-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  mydata.tar
|-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  opt
|   |-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  backgrounds
|   |-- [-rwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  bootlocal.sh
|   |-- [-rwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  bootsync.sh
|   |-- [-rwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  shutdown.sh
|   `-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  tcemirror
`-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  usr
    `-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  local
        `-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  etc
            |-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  frr
            |   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  daemons
            |   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  frr.conf
            |   |-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  ns-frr                       <<<<<< this directory becomes owned by root:root after reboot
            |   |   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  daemons
            |   |   |-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  frr.conf
            |   |   `-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  vtysh.conf
            |   `-- [-rw-r--r-- tc       staff   ]  vtysh.conf
            `-- [drwxr-xr-x tc       staff   ]  ssh
<snip>

11 directories, 30 files
tc@testapps:/tmp/mydata$

[rhermsen]

See the exact same behavior with version 15.0 trying the x86_64 arch.

'/usr/local/etc/frr' becomes root:root after a reboot.
This I can counter with the following in '/usr/local/tce.installed'

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if [ -d /usr/local/etc/frr ]; then
        chown -R tc:staff /usr/local/etc/frr
fiBut even with the 'Recurse' flag set the subdirectory '/usr/local/etc/frr/ns-frr' still becomes owned by root:root on reboot.

Only way to counter both is to also add next line in '/opt/bootlocal.sh'

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[ -d "/usr/local/etc/frr/ns-frr" ] && chown -R tc:staff /usr/local/etc/frr

[rhermsen]

I found the reason. I missed to specify the directory in '/opt/.filetool.lst'. I only added the files...

If I explicitly specify the directory '/usr/local/etc/test' in '/opt/.filetool.lst' it does restore ownership correctly.
If I only specify the file(s) '/usr/local/etc/test/test.cfg' in '/opt/.filetool.lst' it does not restore ownership of '/usr/local/etc/test'.

From extracting '/mnt/vda1/tce/mydata.tgz' it appears to store also the ownership of '/usr/local/etc/test', but it doesn't...

Steps to reproduce the issue I ran into:

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# Using TCL-14.0 x86 (expect same on x86_64 and also on TCL-15.0)
# verify logged in as tc (expect uid=tc, gid=staff)
id

sudo mkdir /usr/local/etc/test
sudo chown -R tc:staff /usr/local/etc/test
# verify directory created with owner tc:staff
ls -la /usr/local/etc/
touch /usr/local/etc/test/test.cfg
# verify file created with owner tc:staff
ls -la /usr/local/etc/test/
#echo usr/local/etc/test >> /opt/.filetool.lst
echo usr/local/etc/test/test.cfg >> /opt/.filetool.lst
filetool.sh -b
mkdir /tmp/test
tar xzf /mnt/vda1/tce/mydata.tgz -C /tmp/test
tce-load -wi tree
tree -pug /tmp/test
# confirm from the 'tree' output ownership of '/usr/local/etc/test' to be tc:staff

sudo reboot
ls -la /usr/local/etc/


[curaga]

Yeah, this is how tar behaves. Every now and then somebody runs into the same issue.

[rhermsen]

@curaga
I don't think it is tar because after 'tar xzf /mnt/vda1/tce/mydata.tgz -C /tmp/test' permissions are still as expected.
Still have to try some more to understand this behavior a bit better, but that is of later...
For now I use a workaround as part of the tce.installed script.

[curaga]

If a directory is not included in the archive, it will be created with defaults. So ownership will depend on who runs it, permissions on the current umask, etc.