Commands failed with permission denied when McAfee agent is running

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Getting permission denied while executing command on file
# cksum 36022dc9-2112-4437-9f2a-a854e52f197d 
cksum: 36022dc9-2112-4437-9f2a-a854e52f197d: Permission denied

or when starting a KVM-based virtual machine

"Error starting domain: cannot open file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMName.img': Operation not permitted".

Environment

  • RHEL

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