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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 3, 2023

Virginia Tech: The external agent API endpoint consumes a customer provided tarball, unpacks it and then launches a process using the scripts in the tarball. The tarball is unpacked with whatever file ownership options were passed to tar during its creation. For some applications, this causes problems as the scripts are run as root, but the file ownership is still based on the tar file inputs. The request is to unpack the tarball with customer selectable UGO permissions.

Unpacking the tarball with the appropriate tar flags to ignore the ownership and substitute root or updating the file agent documentation to request the customer producing the tarball use the --owner=root and --group=root options may help customers using the external agent.

Idea priority High