I created a foreman-debug file. When I expand the tar file in my /tmp directory, it overwrites the permissions for /tmp , which can cause other problems.

When creating the tar file, perhaps create a sub-directory before collecting all of the various files so that it doesn't accidentally expand over files in the current directory?

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Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a debug file

[root@puppetmaster ~]# foreman-debug

HOSTNAME: puppetmaster.example.org
       OS: redhat
  RELEASE: Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon)
  FOREMAN: 1.4.2
     RUBY: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]
   PUPPET: 3.5.1

A debug file has been created: /tmp/foreman-debug-7BKxm.tar.xz (443728 bytes)

You may want to upload the tarball to our public server via rsync. There is a
write only directory (readable only by Foreman core developers) for that. Note
the rsync transmission is UNENCRYPTED:

rsync /tmp/foreman-debug-7BKxm.tar.xz rsync://theforeman.org/debug-incoming

Do you want to do this now? [y/N] N

[root@puppetmaster ~]#

2. Untar the tarfile and notice how the file munges the permissions

[root@puppetmaster ~]# cd /tmp
[root@puppetmaster tmp]# ls ld .
drwxrwxrwt. 7 root root 4096 Apr 22 12:36 .
[root@puppetmaster tmp]# tar Jxf /tmp/foreman-debug-7BKxm.tar.xz
[root@puppetmaster tmp]# ls -ld .
drwx-----. 10 root root 4096 Apr 22 12:35 .

3. This causes other failures, such as mod_passenger being unable to work:

[ 2014-04-22 11:51:49.3837 4282/7f388d44f7e0 apache2/Hooks.cpp:757 ]: Unexpect
ed error in mod_passenger: Cannot connect to Unix socket '/tmp/passenger.1.0.4
260/generation-0/request': Permission denied (errno=13)
Backtrace:
(empty)

1. To fix this problem, reset the privileges on /tmp with the following chmod:

[root@puppetmaster tmp]# chmod 1777 .
[root@puppetmaster tmp]# ls -ld .
drwxrwxrwt. 10 root root 4096 Apr 22 12:35 .
[root@host tmp]#