Problem:

"rpm -V nfs-utils" complains about /var/lib/nfs/statd/state file owner and group on RHEL 9+

The owner and group of /var/lib/nfs/statd/state is created as root:root, but the rpm is expecting rpcuser:rpcuser. The result is that a rpm verify on the nfs-utils package is failing

On RHEL 8.10 this was not the case there the nfs-utils rpm expects the /var/lib/nfs/statd/state to have as root:root

What is the impact?

Failure of rpm -V

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

nfs-utils-2.5.4-26.el9_4.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?:

Consistently

Steps to reproduce

RHEL 9.4
kernel 5.14.0-427.42.1.el9_4.x86_64
nfs-utils-2.5.4-26.el9_4.x86_64

1. ll /var/lib/nfs/statd
   total 4
   drwx------. 2 rpcuser rpcuser 6 Aug 16 16:20 sm
   drwx------. 2 rpcuser rpcuser 6 Aug 16 16:20 sm.bak
   rw-rr-. 1 root root 4 Nov 21 12:42 state

1. rpm -V nfs-utils
   .....UG.. g /var/lib/nfs/statd/state

Here it reports that user and group ownership differs.

Based on the listing of the package:

1. rpm -qlv nfs-utils | grep state
   rw-rr- 1 rpcuser rpcuser 0 Aug 16 16:20 /var/lib/nfs/statd/state

Ownership defined in the package does not match real ownership of the file.

Expected results

Consistency with rpm definitions

Actual results

As reported in the problem description and reproducing steps