[Question]: Azure Static Web App task changing directory permissions for the working directory to root

[ayush2708]

Task name

AzureStaticWebapp@0

Task version

0.228.0

Environment type (Please select at least one enviroment where you face this issue)

• Self-Hosted
• Microsoft Hosted
• VMSS Pool
• Container

Azure DevOps Server type

dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

No response

Operation system

RHEL 7

Question

Information:
- I am running Azure Pipelines on Self-Hosted Linux (RHEL7) Agent
- Running the Static Web App Deployment task within Pipeline Job

Issue:
- Task is modifying the working directory permissions to root from local user while execution (The user from which the agent is running initially) 
- This is creating issue for subsequent runs, pipeline (job) is failing at initialization step stating Access is denied to multiple files/directories.

[ayush2708]

Just adding some logs for better understanding. I was hitting ls-al continiously while the pipeline was running to capture the change in directory ownerships.

[localuser@xxx 19]$ ls -al
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 7 localuser localuser 75 Oct 19 18:04 .
drwxrwxrwx. 26 localuser localuser 275 Oct 19 18:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 localuser localuser 6 Oct 19 18:04 a
drwxr-xr-x. 2 localuser localuser 6 Oct 19 18:04 b
drwxr-xr-x. 3 localuser localuser 20 Oct 19 18:04 npmAuthenticate
drwxr-xr-x. 8 localuser localuser 4096 Oct 19 18:04 s
drwxr-xr-x. 2 localuser localuser 6 Oct 19 18:04 TestResults

[localuser@xx 19]$ ls -al
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 7 localuser localuser 75 Oct 19 18:04 .
drwxrwxrwx. 26 localuser localuser 275 Oct 19 18:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 localuser localuser 6 Oct 19 18:04 a
drwxr-xr-x. 2 localuser localuser 6 Oct 19 18:04 b
drwxr-xr-x. 3 localuser localuser 20 Oct 19 18:04 npmAuthenticate
drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:05 s
drwxr-xr-x. 2 localuser localuser 6 Oct 19 18:04 TestResults

• 'localuser' is the 'user' which my agent utilizes for all Pipelines
• 's' is the 'Default Working directory in Azure Pipelines
• '19' is the Pipeline Workspace

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