Werk #5502: Prevent baked tar.gz agents from changing ownership of files on host

Component Agent bakery
Title Prevent baked tar.gz agents from changing ownership of files on host
Date Jul 5, 2018
Checkmk Edition Checkmk Enterprise (CEE)
Checkmk Version 1.4.0p35 1.5.0b8 1.6.0b1
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed

When extracting a tar.gz packaged agent from the agent bakery as root (as it is normallly done), the user and group ownerships of the extracted files would be set to the Check_MK site user, if such user is available on the target host. This would lead to a wrong ownership on some folders like "/etc", "/usr" and "/var".

In order to prevent this, the agent bakery now creates the tar.gz packages correctly by setting an ownership of "root".

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