[pgpool-general: 3421] couldn't open /etc/pgpool2/pool_passwd. reason: Permission denied

[Christophe Pettus]

In a new pgpool2 installation (3.3.4), I'm getting the following errors in the log:

Jan 14 06:21:48 ip-10-181-32-109 pgpool[22069]: pool_init_pool_passwd: couldn't open /etc/pgpool2/pool_passwd. reason: Permission denied

What's odd is that the file exists, and is readable:

$ ls -la /etc/pgpool2/pool_passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Jan 14 05:52 /etc/pgpool2/pool_passwd

The file was created using pg_md5
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-- Christophe Pettus
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