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[Serge Hallyn <1293549@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, that is a great reproducer.

Note that doing
   rm -rf /etc/ssl/private
   mkdir /etc/ssl/private

works around this, and explains why this *may* in fact be on purpose.  If you only do
    sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /etc/ssl/private

then the underlying directory is still owned by root and not readable by
ubuntu.  So this could be seen as allowing for an information leak,
although it seems like a stretch to me since root has to do the chown in
the first place.

It wasn't immediately obvious to me where in the code
(linux/ubuntu/aufs/) this is happening.

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Filesystem mount from lxc template causes filesystem permission
  breakages

Status in juju-core:
  Triaged
Status in lxc containers:
  New
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “postgresql” package in Juju Charms Collection:
  New

Bug description:
  In juju-core 1.17.5, creating new lxc machines is now much faster as
  it appears to be using a template machine. In addition, the root
  filesystem is mounted from the template machine.

  Unfortunately, this causes filesystem permissions to screw up.

  juju deploy ubuntu
  juju ssh ubuntu/0
  sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /etc/ssl/private
  ls /etc/ssl/private

  That final 'ls' fails with a permission denied. This is possibly a
  security precaution in lxc or the filesystem.

  This issue breaks the postgresql charm. The PostgreSQL packages
  require and use the ssl-cert package, which changes /etc/ssl/private
  to be group readable by the ssl-cert group. The postgres user, a
  member of the ssl-cert group, is unable to read the private key stored
  in this directory.

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