File permissions are not set on create

[func0der]

Everytime i create a new file, the permissions are not set correctly.

        else
            # If the file doesn't exist then create it
            File.new(resource[:file], "w", resource[:mode])
            mech(resource[:file])
            return false
        end

This triggers the new file creation in httpauth/lib/puppet/provider/httpauth/httpauth.rb:22.
Afterwards the file permissions are always 0600, even though the resource[:mode] is resource[:mode] is 0640.
My umask on the system is 0022 if that is of any consideration.

Even changing the code to:

        else
            # If the file doesn't exist then create it
            File.new(resource[:file], "w")
            File.chmod(resource[:mode], resource[:file])
            mech(resource[:file])
            return false
        end

did not change anything.

If I run puppet again and it runs:

        if File.exist?(resource[:file])
            # Set file mode to given value
            File.chmod(resource[:mode], resource[:file])

everything is set correctly.

I am out of ideas. I am not a ruby developer. Maybe the file operations are asynchronous or something is really, really wrong here.

Environment:

vagrant@foo:~$ ruby --version
ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

vagrant@foo:~$ puppet --version
5.5.18

vagrant@foo:~$ facter --version
3.11.11 (commit 7ae8aff59a71b4992c0f52e0ac61eb58643cb3fc)

Example code:

  httpauth { "foo@/etc/nginx/bar.htpasswd":
    ensure    => present,
    file      => /etc/nginx/bar.htpasswd,
    mode      => 0644,
    name      => foo,
    password  => bar,
    mechanism => basic,
  }

[jamtur01]

Are you using the forge module or the HEAD of this repo?

[jamtur01]

Can you try the current HEAD of the project and see if that fixes it?