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live-additional-software.conf is given wrong permissions when it's updated by tails-additional-software

With an ISO build with 8dd945efef3e4f47f11742862cf34b098ae42cc2

  • Boot from USB with network and admin password with no configured persistent storage
  • Install a package with APT
  • Confirm you want to create the persistent storage
  • Enter passphrases and confirm
  • Wait for t-p-s to finish and close it

/media/tails-persistence-setup/TailsData/live-additional-software.conf is 0600

live-persist rightfully detects it’s not 0644 on next boot and disable ASP.

Parent Task: #14594 (closed)

Original created by @bertagaz on 15430 (Redmine)

To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information