What is the significance and impact of this warning message on Centrify DirectControl?
Answer:
Centrify has researched this command and determined that the command is flagging our use of chmod in our package script. This is being done to safeguard the Centrify installation directory and in our conclusion is a safe action given the circumstances. As reported by the output, it is a warning message only intended to notify and not reported as an error level message.
For reference here is what will happen when you run the rpm command with a specific Centrify package.
Observing the following output broken down into three different parts with clarification.
First part, this is to ensure integrity of the run time settings directory chmod 755 /var/centrifydc >> ${LOG_FILE} 2>> ${LOG_FILE}
Second part, these are to ensure the integrity of the machine GP settings directory (${REG_DIR} = /var/Centrifydc/reg) find ${REG_DIR}/machine/secedit/ -type d -exec chmod 700 '{}' \; find ${REG_DIR}/machine/secedit/ -type f -exec chmod 600 '{}' \; find ${REG_DIR}/machine/software/ -type d -exec chmod 700 '{}' \; find ${REG_DIR}/machine/software/ -type f -exec chmod 600 '{}' \; chmod 600 ${REG_DIR}/machine/applied_policies chmod 744 ${REG_DIR}/machine/gp.report
Third part, these are to ensure the integrity of the user GP settings directory (${REG_DIR}/users/)