Permissions on Unix agent's client folders inside resources folder reverts to 777

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

AWA's Unix agent changes the client-folders inside the Resources folder from 774 or 775 to 777 (world writeable).

Example:

Before Unix agent runs a job:

[automic@server resources]$ pwd
/automic/Agents/unix/resources/0001
[automic@server resources]$ ls -lsh
total 1.5K
1.5K drwxr-xr-x 2 automic automic gp 2 Sep 9 05:00 0001

After Unix agent runs a job:

[automic@server resources]$ pwd
/automic/Agents/unix/resources/0001
[automic@server resources]$ ls -lsh
total 1.5K
1.5K drwxrwxrwx 2 automic automic gp 2 Sep 13 07:00 0001

Environment

Release: AUTWAB99000-11.2-Automic Workload Automation-Base Edition
Component:

Cause

This behavior is by design where the permissions is being changed on the client-folders (i.e. 0001 folder) located inside the Resource folder.

Resolution

The Unix agent cannot determine at Runtime, which user will access the data stored in the Resources directory. Therefore, the per-client-subdirectories must be accessible for everyone.