Make sure SenderStatusCertMiss is not overwritten

[eriknordmark]

Description

This is needed to fetch new controller certificates. Without it certificate rotation can fail to propagate to
EVE devices in a timely manner (the 24 h timer will do it as a fallback).

Fixes the failures we see in the ctrl_cert_change test.

This was introduced in #5584 but the manual testing of those fixes always had a .bak file, and the eden smoke tests have had several cases of flaky tests preceeding the crtl_cert_change test so it has not been getting to the point of trying crtl_cert_change until recently.

How to test and validate this PR

Should be part of the normal regression testing, but in this case we need to run the manual
test which updates the controller signing certificate in addition to the eden test.

Changelog notes

None (part of the PR 5584)

PR Backports

MUST be backported where #5584 is backported wich is:

• 16.0-stable - yes
• 14.5-stable - yes
• 13.4-stable - no

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• I've tested my PR on arm64 device

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 0% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 17.10%. Comparing base (2281599) to head (26037e9).
⚠️ Report is 676 commits behind head on master.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
pkg/pillar/controllerconn/authen.go	0.00%	5 Missing ⚠️

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[rene]

Let's take this opportunity to fix these Yetus issues....

[eriknordmark]

@rene
Why? This is a priority 1 bug AFAICT.

[rene]

Kicking off tests....

[rene]

Storage (zfs) is consistently timing out: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/actions/runs/25430843709/job/74686298784#step:4:1011

Perhaps you could increase from 10min to 20min?

[eriknordmark]

Storage (zfs) is consistently timing out: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/actions/runs/25430843709/job/74686298784#step:4:1011

Perhaps you could increase from 10min to 20min?

Exploring ways to make that more robust in lf-edge/eden#1155, which is undoing/redoing a previous attempt to fix another issue in the ZFS storage test.

[eriknordmark]

Storage (zfs) is consistently timing out: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/actions/runs/25430843709/job/74686298784#step:4:1011
Perhaps you could increase from 10min to 20min?

Exploring ways to make that more robust in lf-edge/eden#1155, which is undoing/redoing a previous attempt to fix another issue in the ZFS storage test.

https://github.com/lf-edge/eden/actions/runs/25460237740/job/74700236782?pr=1155 is looking good so merging this PR and those Storage(zfs) tests will become more robust with 1155.