Hello!
What is going on with these folders? Is this normal? (I checked, they are both empty at least)
On my system, 700 is the default permission for both directories, which is why I’m a little surprised that this warning showed up at all.
The warning is telling you that the /etc/credstore and /etc/credstore.encrypted directories on your file system has permission 000 when 700 is what the systemd package recommends.
In this particular case, 000 and 700 doesn’t really matter since those two directories are owned by root to begin with. 000 means only root can read, write, and execute those directories (even the file/directory’s owner can’t do anything with the file/directory other than change its permissions). 700 means only the owner can read, write, and execute those directories. But since, the owner is also root in this case, 000 and 700 are effectively the same.
You can either ignore the warning, or change the directory permissions manually. Changing the permissions will prevent the warning from appearing again during subsequent updates.
Before you do anything, though, check the current permissions for those directories first.
ls -ld /etc/credstore
If you see something like this
drwx------ root root 4.0 KB Thu Jul 13 19:13:54 2023 /etc/credstore
Then there is nothing to fix, in which case I don’t know why that warning even showed up because the permission is already 700.
If you wish to change the permission manually, run:
sudo chmod 700 /etc/credstore
sudo chmod 700 /etc/credstore.encrypted
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Thank you!
(yes, there is nothing to fix after all)
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