Etckeeper continuously resets the file permission for /etc/.etckeeper back to 0700. For backup reasons I need it to be group-readable at least, i.e. 0740. Every time etckeeper resets the file permissions, my nightly backup breaks.
How do I keep etckeeper from resetting the file permissions?
You can edit /etc/etckeeper/pre-commit.d/30store-metadata and find in that file where it has
chmod 700. Do note the comment about why it uses that permission.It seems to me that any backup software that is operating on /etc needs to be able to read /etc/shadow, and only root and group shadow can. So unless your backup program is running as group shadow with some other user, I wonder how it can make sense to need to do this.