Chapter 4. Verifying permissions of IdM configuration files using Healthcheck

The Healthcheck tool tests the ownership and permissions of files installed or configured by Identity Management (IdM).

If you change the ownership or permissions of these files, the tests return a warning in the result section. While this does not necessarily mean that the configuration does not work, it means that the file differs from the default configuration.

You can find the file permissions tests under the ipahealthcheck.ipa.files source of the output of the ipa-healthcheck --list-sources command.

Follow this procedure to run a standalone manual test of an Identity Management (IdM) server’s configuration files using the Healthcheck tool.

The Healthcheck tool includes many tests. Results can be narrowed down by:

A successful test displays empty brackets:

ipa-healthcheck --source=ipahealthcheck.ipa.files
[]

# ipa-healthcheck --source=ipahealthcheck.ipa.files
[]

Failed tests display results similar to the following WARNING:

{
  "source": "ipahealthcheck.ipa.files",
  "check": "IPAFileNSSDBCheck",
  "result": "WARNING",
  "kw": {
    "key": "_etc_dirsrv_slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST_pkcs11.txt_mode",
    "path": "/etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/pkcs11.txt",
    "type": "mode",
    "expected": "0640",
    "got": "0666",
    "msg": "Permissions of /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/pkcs11.txt are 0666 and should be 0640"
  }
}

{
  "source": "ipahealthcheck.ipa.files",
  "check": "IPAFileNSSDBCheck",
  "result": "WARNING",
  "kw": {
    "key": "_etc_dirsrv_slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST_pkcs11.txt_mode",
    "path": "/etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/pkcs11.txt",
    "type": "mode",
    "expected": "0640",
    "got": "0666",
    "msg": "Permissions of /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/pkcs11.txt are 0666 and should be 0640"
  }
}