> > 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. *** I was also surprised when I see the workaround worked. But your previous reply implied that (both system should have same local account name) to me. Anyways, I need to play more ... > 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 *** Yes, the link does explain and make sense to me. Thanks! --- On Mon, 8/16/10, Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> wrote: From: Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission denied' error To: "Peter Bee" <yb...@yahoo.com> Cc: fab-user@nongnu.org Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 5:56 PM On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Peter Bee <yb...@yahoo.com> 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 <j...@bitprophet.org> wrote: > > From: Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> > Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission denied' > error > To: "Peter Bee" <yb...@yahoo.com> > Cc: fab-user@nongnu.org > Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 10:37 AM > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Peter Bee <yb...@yahoo.com> 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 = ['f...@10.0.0.1'] > > (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 <j...@bitprophet.org> wrote: > > > > From: Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> > > Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission denied' > > error > > To: "Peter Bee" <yb...@yahoo.com> > > Cc: fab-user@nongnu.org > > Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 5:42 AM > > > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Peter Bee <yb...@yahoo.com> 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 <j...@bitprophet.org> wrote: > > > > > > From: Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> > > > Subject: Re: [Fab-user] First Fabric connected but got 'Permission > > > denied' error > > > To: "Peter Bee" <yb...@yahoo.com> > > > Cc: fab-user@nongnu.org > > > Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 5:44 AM > > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Peter Bee <yb...@yahoo.com> 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 > -- Jeff Forcier Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer http://bitprophet.org
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