Description of problem: Configuration files as specified in channels are have not only their content but other properties as well, namely file permissions.
Change in those might be of interest, as some programs refuse to operate in case that configuration files they use have inappropriate permissions (for example if they are word-readable). Therefore it can be considered issue that comparing actual config files with those specified in satellite does not notice difference in permissions.

Version-Release number of selected component:

  rhncfg-actions-5.10.55-5.el6sat
  rhncfg-5.10.55-5.el6sat
  rhncfg-client-5.10.55-5.el6sat

How reproducible: always/deterministic


Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Create configuration channel, create some configuration file
  2. Add system to channel, deploy file
  3. change permissions on file (not content), schedule compare file:
        Systems -> <system>
          -> Configuration (provisioning entitilement needed)
          -> Compare files

Actual results:
  no changes are reported

Expected results:
  note about changed permissions

Additional info:
  similarly we should be able to notice selinux context change, owner, group...

  trying to identify change of name would not be good idea, as it is identifying
  info, in that case reporting missing (or changed content if two files are
  swapped) would be ok (case where files are swapped but content is
  same is trivial as it is not distinguishable from "valid" state).