Extracting sosreport as a regular user returns "Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted" error

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Issue

  • running sosreport generated tar,xz archive
  • an attempt to unpack the archive by a regular user returns "Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted" error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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