Uploading a new collection to Ansible Automation Hub failed with error [Permission denied: b'/var/lib/pulp/.ansible/tmp']

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Ansible Automation Hub 4.5,4.6.

Issue

  • Uploading a collection to Ansible Automation Hub failed with error :
ERROR: Invalid settings supplied for DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP: Unable to create local directories(/var/lib/pulp/.ansible/tmp): [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/var/lib/pulp/.ansible/tmp'

Resolution

  • Change the ownership of directory .ansible to pulp:
# cd /var/lib/pulp
# chown pulp .ansible/ -R

Root Cause

  • Wrong ownership of DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP directory:
# ls -al /var/lib/pulp/
total 44
drwxr-xr-x   9 pulp pulp 4096 Jul 29 20:00 .
drwxr-xr-x. 45 root root 4096 Oct  4 02:10 ..
-rw-------   1 pulp pulp   40 Jul 29 20:00 admin_token
drwx------   3 1001 pulp 4096 Apr 20 13:28 .ansible
drwxr-xr-x   6 pulp pulp 4096 Jul 29 19:58 assets
drwxrwxr-x   5 pulp pulp 4096 Jul 30 00:51 media
drwxr-xr-x   3 pulp pulp 4096 Jul 29 19:56 pulpcore_static
drwxrwxr-x   2 pulp pulp 4096 Jul 29 19:55 scripts
drwxrwxr-x   8 pulp pulp 4096 Oct  7 03:23 tmp

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