Huawei DME forcefully deleting your systems certificate store, ar tool and more

This one is another perfect example for "Enterprise software". At a customer I noticed an ongoing discussion why some systems, where the Huawei DME was installed, were having trouble with all sorts of internal services. As soon as anything required a SSL/TLS connection it wouldn't work. Internal RPM-Repositories requiring HTTPS? Not working Agents for various tasks (patching, monitoring, etc.) couldn't establish outgoing connections Cron-Tasks utilizing system internal tools who in turn require an SSL/TLS connection to be established (like downloading something with curl via HTTPS) stopped working and started throwing errors Additionally files from another software packed with ar suddenly couldn't be extracted anymore In short: Something was really, really wrong here. System administrators at the client noticed that, indeed, all sorts of files under /etc/pki/ had been deleted. This, at least, explained the various SSL/TLS issues. Also zypper, the package manager being used, listed the…