The add-user.sh script fails if $WILDFLY_HOME/domain is missing --------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-4522 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-4522 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Management, Security Affects Versions: 9.0.1.Final Reporter: Brian Stansberry Assignee: Jeff Mesnil Priority: Critical If the $WILDFLY_HOME/domain is missing (which will often be the case with a Galleon-provisioned server, using add-user.sh fails: {code}$ bin/add-user.sh What type of user do you wish to add? a) Management User (mgmt-users.properties) b) Application User (application-users.properties) (a): a * Error * WFLYDM0106: File permissions problems found while attempting to update /home/bes/dev/wildfly/wildfly-core/build/target/wildfly-core-9.0.1.Final/domain/configuration/mgmt-users.properties file. {code} The problem is PropertyFileFinder is invoking the validatePermissions check on files that don't exist, and those checks fail not because of missing perms but because you can't read or execute non-existing files. The validatePermissions checks are called from findFiles, which is already dealing with non-existing files (i.e. not adding them to the foundFiles list and returning false if no files exist) so I don't see a reason to validate non-existing files.