Installing Red Hat Satellite 6.17 fails with Detected incorrect permissions on /var/lib/pulp/assets but user pulp doesn't exist

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Issue

  • Installing Red Hat Satellite 6.17 fails with:

    Detected incorrect permissions on /var/lib/pulp/assets but user pulp doesn't exist
2025-08-07 09:30:22 [ERROR ] [root] Detected incorrect permissions on /var/lib/pulp/assets but user pulp doesn't exist

Environment

  • Red hat Satellite 6.17

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