= phenomenon =
Candlepin team has several repos hosted on repos.fedorapeople.org. /srv/repos/candlepin. One of the sub-directories has invalid permissions:

/srv/repos/candlepin/rho

ls -la

total 48K
drwxrwsr-x. 10 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Aug 7 19:57 ./
drwxrwsr-x. 8 dgoodwin gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 14:21 ../
drwxrwsr-x. 4 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 13:59 epel-5/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 13:58 epel-5Server/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 13:59 epel-6/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 13:58 epel-6Server/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 176999 gitcandlepin 4.0K Nov 24 18:00 epel-7/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 176999 gitcandlepin 4.0K Aug 7 19:36 epel-7Server/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 176999 gitcandlepin 448 Aug 7 19:48 epel-rho.repo
drwxrwsr-x. 2 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 13:49 fedora-19/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 jmrodri gitcandlepin 4.0K Jul 22 14:01 fedora-20/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 176999 gitcandlepin 456 Aug 7 19:49 fedora-rho.repo

= background analysis =

= implementation recommendation =

chown all files in candlepin/rho/ jmrodri:gitcandlepin so that we can properly access the files for our builds. Apparently the user who's account was 176999 is no longer at Red Hat.