Bug 1111491

Summary:	beaker-create-kickstart gives a confusing error when attempting to read DB credentials
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan>
Component:	command line	Assignee:	Amit Saha <asaha>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version:	develop	CC:	aigao, asaha, dcallagh, ebaak, rmancy, xma
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Description Nick Coghlan 2014-06-20 07:41:02 UTC

beaker-create-kickstart tries to read from /etc/beaker/server.cfg to get the database credentials, but that is only readable by root and the Beaker web service user so it fails when run as an ordinary user.

It would be good to provide a better error message in this case.

Comment 2 Amit Saha 2014-06-21 13:59:00 UTC

http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/3155/

Comment 4 Dan Callaghan 2014-07-15 03:45:11 UTC

Steps to reproduce:

For each server CLI command (beaker-create-kickstart, beaker-init, beaker-create-ipxe-image, beaker-log-delete, nag-mail, product-update, beaker-repo-update, beaker-refresh-ldap):
1. Run the command as a non-root user

Expected results:
Non-zero exit status, error message like the following is printed:
Failed to read server configuration. [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/beaker/server.cfg'.
Hint: run this command as root

Comment 6 Dan Callaghan 2014-07-18 08:17:46 UTC

Beaker 0.17.1 has been released.