Confirmed installation of rabbitmq changes ownership permission of /etc/rabbitmq:
root@review-eoan:~# apt-cache policy rabbitmq-server rabbitmq-server: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.7.8-4ubuntu2 Version table: 3.7.8-4ubuntu2 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages root@review-eoan:~# mkdir /etc/rabbitmq root@review-eoan:~# ls -lad /etc/rabbitmq/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 4 18:32 /etc/rabbitmq/ root@review-eoan:~# apt-get install rabbitmq-server ... Adding system user `rabbitmq' (UID 111) ... Adding new user `rabbitmq' (UID 111) with group `rabbitmq' ... Not creating home directory `/var/lib/rabbitmq'. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rabbitmq-server.service → /lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service. Processing triggers for systemd (240-6ubuntu9) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.29-0ubuntu2) ... root@review-eoan:~# ls -lad /etc/rabbitmq/ drwxr-xr-x 2 rabbitmq rabbitmq 4096 Sep 4 18:33 /etc/rabbitmq/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1842408 Title: rabbitmq-server writes to /etc/rabbitmq To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rabbitmq-server/+bug/1842408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs