Detected unsafe path transition

[jfabernathy]

I have a new installation of EOS. I’ve started seeing errors related to sssd that make no sense to be as I don’t even know what sssd is. below is a recent output from a “yay” command

:: Running post-transaction hooks...
( 1/11) Creating system user accounts...
( 2/11) Reloading system manager configuration...
( 3/11) Reloading user manager configuration...
( 4/11) Creating temporary files...
Detected unsafe path transition /etc/sssd (owned by sssd) → /etc/sssd/conf.d (owned by root) during canonicalization of etc/sssd/conf.d.
Detected unsafe path transition /etc/sssd (owned by sssd) → /etc/sssd/pki (owned by root) during canonicalization of etc/sssd/pki.
error: command failed to execute correctly

This is a EOS Plasma install with btrfs, grub-btrfs, snapper, snap-pac, and btrfs-assistant.

Jim A

[dalto]

It looks like this is due to permissions changing in the sssd package.

There is already discussion about it on this issue: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/sssd/-/issues/5

@jfabernathy

I don’t even know what sssd is

You can check and see what package on your system is requiring it with:

pactree -r sssd

[jfabernathy]

pactree -r sssd
sssd
[jim@den-pc ~]$ sudo pactree -r sssd
[sudo] password for jim: 
sssd

[dalto]

You can probably remove it if you don’t want it. It looks like nothing is depending on it.

[jfabernathy]

Before I remove it, I’ll try the directory ownership fixes mentioned in the discussion you referenced.

[jfabernathy]

I rechecked the link you referenced above and it’s now fixed. Plus I noticed the sssd package received an update.