[Kea-users] ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the mode is different. (File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 755)

[Andrei Pavel]

Hi, Ronald!

We recently became aware of this warning too. It should not prevent Kea 
from functioning properly if you leave it as-is.

The proper way to get rid of the message is to add 
"ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 750" to the "[Service]" section, although 
you may want to wait for an official update to the systemd file.

Unrelated, if you're running on a Debian-based system, uninstalling and 
installing Kea 2.6.3 does result in a more serious error that prevents 
reinstallation.

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
  unknown system user '_kea' in statoverride file; the system user got 
removed

This can be resolved with "dpkg-statoverride --remove /etc/kea" before 
installing again.

We are working to address both of the issues and we'll likely provide 
new Kea packages for all affected versions this week, although there is 
no official decision yet.

Thank you for the report and sorry for any inconvenience!
Andrei

On 10/06/2025 09:23, DDFR | Ronald Blaas wrote:
> Hi all, > > As of today (using v2.6.3) I see this odd message in the log > 
ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the mode is > different. 
(File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 755) > > > I was first 
triggered because something has changed in the socket- > name. We used 
to have it set to /tmp but apparently this is not > valid anymore and 
should be set to /var/run/kea.  All fine by me 🙂 > > But the message 
ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the > mode is different. 
(File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: > 755) unknown to me. 
Ofcourse I could set the mode but because of > security we do not want 
to set the other user bit(s) > > Any other way to get rid of this 
message? > > DHCP seems to be running fine. > > Regards, > > Ronald >
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