Re: [HTCondor-users] ERROR: read_secure_file.... file must not be readable by others, had perms 100644

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/6/2017 3:26 AM, Guang.Wei wrote:
> The condor host node:
> CollectorLog:
>
> 04/06/17 16:16:36 ERROR: read_secure_file(/etc/condor/poolpassword):
> file must not be readable by others, had perms 100644
> 04/06/17 16:16:36 getStoredCredential():
> read_secure_file(/etc/condor/poolpassword) failed!
> 04/06/17 16:16:36 ERROR: read_secure_file(/etc/condor/poolpassword):
> file must not be readable by others, had perms 100644
> 04/06/17 16:16:36 getStoredCredential():
> read_secure_file(/etc/condor/poolpassword) failed!
> 04/06/17 16:16:56 DC_AUTHENTICATE: required authentication of
> xxx.25.138.209 failed: AUTHENTICATE:1006:exceeded 1491466616 deadline
> during authentication|AUTHENTICATE:1004:Failed to authenticate using
> FS|FS:1004:Unable to lstat(/tmp/FS_XXXsezxnE)
> 04/06/17 16:16:56 condor_write(): Socket closed when trying to write 39
> bytes to <xxx.25.138.209:9757>, fd is 19
> 04/06/17 16:16:56 Buf::write(): condor_write() failed
>
> the perms of the file:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  256 Jul 22  2015 poolpassword

HTCondor is trying to prevent an insecure configuration.  Your 
poolpassword file is world readable, which is not a good idea.

To remedy, as root you should do

   chmod 600 /etc/condor/poolpassword

and then restart HTCondor.

Hope the above helps
Todd