just checking: did you check these other changes to permissions of /etc/maas* ?
$ git grep "chown.*etc/maas" debian/maas-common.postinst: chown -R maas:maas /etc/maas/certificates utilities/remote-reinstall:ssh_run "chown -R maas:maas /etc/maas" -- https://code.launchpad.net/~cgrabowski/maas/+git/maas/+merge/434600 Your team MAAS Maintainers is requested to review the proposed merge of ~cgrabowski/maas:fix_config_permissions_on_init into maas:master. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors Post to : sts-sponsors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp