[SOLVED] Issue with permissions in /etc after pct restore

[vistule3]

Hello everyone,

I installed Proxmox VE on top of a running Debian Bookworm 64-bit.

When I use the `pct restore` command to restore a container, the permissions on the `/etc` directory in the container are not correct. They are set to `750` instead of `755`. This causes an error when I switch from root to another user.
It seems that this permissions issue on `/etc` prevents non-root users from accessing certain necessary files, leading to a "Permission denied" error :



Does anyone know how to fix this permission issue or why `pct restore` might be setting `/etc` to `750` instead of `755`?

What’s odd is that this problem didn’t happen with Proxmox 6, which I had installed via the official ISO. Also, I’ve double-checked that the permissions in the archive files I’m restoring are set correctly to 755 on '/etc', so it seems like something in the pct restore process or the Proxmox environment might be changing them.

Thanks for any help!

# pveversion
pve-manager/8.2.4/faa83925c9641325 (running kernel: 6.8.8-2-pve)

# cat /etc/debian_version
12.7

 

[vistule3]

I found the solution!

The issue was caused by a hardening setting I had applied, which modified the umask in /etc/bash.bashrc to 027 instead of the default 022. This stricter umask was setting more restrictive permissions during certain operations.
After reverting the umask back to 022, the problem disappeared, and permissions are now applied correctly on the container /etc dir.

Thank you to everyone who considered this!

 

[lbr]

Wow thank you vistule3 for the workaround! I had headaches and my brain was fried trying to find a solution to this problem.