Bug 804573 – app-crypt/trousers: ownership and permissions of /etc/tcsd.conf prevent tcsd.service from starting

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Turner 2021-07-27 01:14:13 UTC]

After installing trousers, systemctl start tcsd fails:

> Jul 26 18:10:07 p50 tcsd[50304]: TCSD ERROR: TCSD config file (/etc/tcsd.conf) must be user/group root/tss

After chown root /etc/tcsd.conf and trying again:

> Jul 26 18:11:02 p50 tcsd[50335]: TCSD ERROR: TCSD config file (/etc/tcsd.conf) must be mode 0640

Now tcsd will start properly.

The file should be installed with correct ownership and permissions such that this manual intervention is not necessary.

[Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens 2021-07-27 03:23:37 UTC]

Just to confirm, what version is this?

Asking given 0.3.15 gives me root:tss 640, but 0.3.14-r3 is tss:tss 600.. so only stable version seems bad.

[Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens 2021-07-27 03:45:15 UTC]

And if 0.3.15, possibly carried over the permissions from the older version and it became a problem (maybe 0.3.14-r3 was fine with these?).

[Comment 3 Matt Turner 2021-07-27 04:24:22 UTC]

Yes, I noticed the problem with app-crypt/trousers-0.3.14-r3. I didn't try 0.3.15.

[Comment 4 Christopher Byrne 2021-09-05 18:11:41 UTC]

Issue seems to be resolved in 0.3.15 (now stabilized).