Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission denied' error

[Jeff Forcier]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> As to the permission issue, I am using a workaround - I created an account 
> with the same name on my Windows (where Fabric sits) as that in Linux (remote 
> box). My question is, is this required?

It shouldn't be, no, and that's actually what I was trying to figure
out -- if you actually *didn't* have a <yourlocalusername> account on
both computers, then it was definitely connecting as the desired user,
so I'm not sure what's up with the permissions error.

> Then I found another interesting thing, 'cd' seems eat up the last layer of 
> the directory from input.

This gets asked frequently -- so I just made an FAQ entry for it, and
wonder why I didn't before :) Please let me know if it doesn't answer
the question clearly enough. It's the first item here:

    http://github.com/bitprophet/fabric/blob/c92765e/docs/faq.rst

-Jeff

>
> Thanks,
> Peter
> --- On Mon, 8/16/10, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Forcier <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission denied' 
> error
> To: "Peter Bee" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 10:37 AM
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I also tried to use 'upload_template()', but got errors as following.
>
> > If I used 'fabric.contrib.files.upload_template()', I got NameError on 
> > 'fabric' as below.
>
> You must be new to Python :D What you want to do is:
>
>     from fabric.contrib.files import upload_template
>
>     # then, elsewhere...
>
>     upload_template(arguments here)
>
> Regarding the permissions issue, what is your local computer's login
> username? I.e. what you've logged in as. Does that username also exist
> on the remote server? I'm guessing that Fab may not be properly using
> your env.user value. You might want to try sticking it into the hosts
> declaration, as that's a bit more solid.
>
> So instead of:
>
>     env.user = "foo"
>     env.hosts = ['10.0.0.1']
>
> You would do:
>
>     env.hosts = ['address@hidden']
>
> (See http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.1/usage/execution.html#hosts [as well
> as the rest of that page] for details.)
>
> That should eliminate any possibility of the username being the problem.
>
> -Jeff
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --- On Sun, 8/15/10, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > From: Jeff Forcier <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission denied' 
> > error
> > To: "Peter Bee" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 5:42 AM
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > I used my account credentials in the fabric file. Using the credentials, 
> > > I can log on and do almost all the operations (wget, mkdir, create file, 
> > > cp, and so on) without 'sudo'.
> >
> > Try printing out env.host_string immediately before your put() call,
> > and see what its value is. If your env.user isn't the same as your
> > local account name, then you should see "<the value you put in
> > env.user>@<the IP address in your hosts list>".
> >
> > If you only see the IP address, then it may be that it's connecting
> > with your local user's username, which (if it exists on the remote end
> > as a legit user) might not have the right permissions. This is a long
> > shot but something to check anyways.
> >
> > > What special rights does 'put' require? Also, how can I use 'sudo' on the 
> > > remote system in the fabric file? For example, what's the code for 'put' 
> > > with a 'sudo'?
> >
> > Right now put() can't do sudo things, but there's a contrib method
> > that can be used as a workaround until we upgrade put():
> > fabric.contrib.files.upload_template(). It has a "use_sudo" Boolean
> > kwarg. Check the API docs for details.
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> > >
> > > --- On Sat, 8/14/10, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Jeff Forcier <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission 
> > > denied' error
> > > To: "Peter Bee" <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 5:44 AM
> > >
> > > Hi Peter,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Underlying exception message:
> > > >     Permission denied
> > >
> > > This usually means exactly what it says: the user you're connecting as
> > > does not have permission to write files to the destination directory
> > > you specified. You'll want to double check that on the remote server
> > > to see what's up.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jeff Forcier
> > > Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer
> > > http://bitprophet.org
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Forcier
> > Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer
> > http://bitprophet.org
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Forcier
> Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer
> http://bitprophet.org
>



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