@@ -1411,6 +1411,35 @@ function get_pip_command() {

     fi

 }

+# Path permissions sanity check

+# check_path_perm_sanity path

+function check_path_perm_sanity() {

+    # Ensure no element of the path has 0700 permissions, which is very

+    # likely to cause issues for daemons.  Inspired by default 0700

+    # homedir permissions on RHEL and common practice of making DEST in

+    # the stack user's homedir.

+

+    local real_path=$(readlink -f $1)

+    local rebuilt_path=""

+    for i in $(echo ${real_path} | tr "/" " "); do

+        rebuilt_path=$rebuilt_path"/"$i

+

+        if [[ $(stat -c '%a' ${rebuilt_path}) = 700 ]]; then

+            echo "*** DEST path element"

+            echo "***    ${rebuilt_path}"

+            echo "*** appears to have 0700 permissions."

+            echo "*** This is very likely to cause fatal issues for devstack daemons."

+

+            if [[ -n "$SKIP_PATH_SANITY" ]]; then

+                return

+            else

+                echo "*** Set SKIP_PATH_SANITY to skip this check"

+                die $LINENO "Invalid path permissions"

+            fi

+        fi

+    done

+}

+

 # Restore xtrace

 $XTRACE

@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ fi

 sudo mkdir -p $DEST

 sudo chown -R $STACK_USER $DEST

+# a basic test for $DEST path permissions (fatal on error unless skipped)

+check_path_perm_sanity ${DEST}

+

 # Set ``OFFLINE`` to ``True`` to configure ``stack.sh`` to run cleanly without

 # Internet access. ``stack.sh`` must have been previously run with Internet

 # access to install prerequisites and fetch repositories.