[Spacewalk-list] "Differences exist in a file that is not readable by all. Re-deployment of configuration file is recommended." on configuration file comparsion

[Fran Garcia]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM, redacted <redacted at example.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've updated my Spacewalk recently and was quite disappointed, that now
> I'm not able to diff my files, which are not available for others.
> Instead of diff I have the following message: "Differences exist in a
> file that is not readable by all. Re-deployment of configuration file is
> recommended."
>
> It's very good from the security point of view, but shouldn't be there
> some option to disable this kind of protection, or make it more flexible?
>
> In my situation - only privileged users has access to their systems on
> Spacewalk.
>
> Is there any other possibility to diff those files?

What about checking from the clients themselves? :

# rhncfg-client verify
 modified /etc/hosts
# rhncfg-client diff
<diff>

There's probably a more elegant way from the Spacewalk web interface, but... :-)

HTH