[CentOS] /etc/bash_completion.d/git generates permissions errors

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 05/28/2014 12:55 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I did a yum update to my desktop machine as root this morning and now my
> regular logon account sees this whenever I press the enter key:
>
> etc/audisp/audispd.conf: Permission denied
> etc/audisp/plugins.d/af_unix.conf: Permission denied
> etc/audisp/plugins.d/syslog.conf: Permission denied
> etc/audit/audit.rules: Permission denied
> etc/audit/auditd.conf: Permission deniedetc/dhcp/dhclient.d/ntp.sh: Permission
> denied
> etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/lxc.conf: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-arp.xml: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp-server.xml: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp.xml: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-incoming-ipv4.xml: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-ipv4.xml: Permission denied
> etc/libvirt/nwfilter/clean-traffic.xml: Permission denied
>
> . . .
>
> etc/lvm/backup/vg_vhost04: Permission denied
> etc/lvm/backup/vg_xnet241: Permission denied
> etc/lvm/backup/vg_xnet242: Permission denied
> etc/lvm/backup/vg_xnet243: Permission denied
> etc/ntp/crypto/pw: Permission denied
> etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/base.pp: Permission denied
> etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/commit_num: Permission denied
> etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts: Permission denied
> etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts.homedirs: Permission denied
> etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts.local: Permission denied
> etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts.template: Permission denied
>
> . . .
>
> root/iaxmodem-debuginfo-1.2.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Permission denied
> root/ifcfg-br0: Permission denied
> root/ifcfg-br1: Permission denied
> root/ifcfg-eth0: Permission denied
> root/ifcfg-eth0:xxx: Permission denied
> root/ifcfg-eth1: Permission denied
> root/install.log: Permission denied
> root/install.log.syslog: Permission denied
> root/internal_call.trace: Permission denied
> root/iptables.gateway.revised: Permission denied
> root/iptables.gway01.20130517: Permission denied
> root/iptables.inet09-2012-12-31: Permission denied
> root/jcameron-key.asc: Permission denied
> root/locale_en_CA at yyyy-mmm-dd.tar.gz: Permission denied
> root/more_or_less_commands.txt: Permission denied
> root/named.conf.bind-9.8.2-default-2013-07-04: Permission denied
> root/named.conf.inet01-dns01-2013-07-04: Permission denied
> root/named.conf.inet03-dnm-2013-07-04: Permission denied
> root/pg_hba.conf: Permission denied
> root/pg_ident.conf: Permission denied
> root/pgadmin.log: Permission denied
> root/pgdg-91-centos.repo: Permission denied
> root/ping_host.sh: Permission denied
> root/ping_http.sh: Permission denied
> root/postgresql.conf: Permission denied
> root/root_voinet09.tgz: Permission denied
> root/rsync_control.tgz: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet01.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet02.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet03.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet04.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet05.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet06.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet07.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet08.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_inet09.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_voinet09_freepbx.sh: Permission denied
> root/rsync_xnet241_home_byrnejb.sh: Permission denied
> root/ttyS0.conf: Permission denied
> root/vimsetup.tgz: Permission denied
> root/virtinstallscript: Permission denied
> root/voinet01_pki.tgz: Permission denied
> root/xTuple-3.8.2-linux-installer.run: Permission denied
>
> I traced this back to this statement in ~/.bash_profile
>
> source /etc/bash_completion.d/git
>
> Removing this statement allows new terminal sessions for my regular account to
> work as they did before - in other words without the massive list of
> permissions errors.  This file comes from the git package in base:
>
> $ yum provides /etc/bash_completion.d/git
> . . .
> 129 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 : Fast Version Control System
> Repo        : base
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /etc/bash_completion.d/git
>
>
> My question is: what is in /etc/bash_completion.d/git that is causing this?
>
>
Are you running with a confined user?  id -Z?  Is this an SELinux issue?