/run/liagent directory for liagent uses 777 permissions

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• /run/liagent directory for liagent uses 777 permissions which is flagged as a security risk on linux machines.
• Manually changing the permission works until the next reboot when the 777 permissions are restored. 

Environment

Aria operations for logs 8.18.x

Resolution

Engineering is aware of this issue and has already included the fix in main branch of VCF 9.0 release.

As a workaround, one can add the configuration to modify permission of /run/liagent to bash script that's run every time linux machine is restarted.