Thanks for confirming. I will proceed with a workaround. Do you have an
expected 2.0 release date?
On Feb 10, 2016 1:37 AM, "Robin Kåveland Hansen" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I’m pretty sure this must be a bug, yeah. I looked quickly over the code,
> it looks like the glob is causing a `listdir` call to be run without
> sufficient priveleges which is probably why you’re getting the permission
> denied. I’d guess this is also what happens when you try to `get` the
> directory itself (this is swallowed by fabric inside a `ftp.walk` function).
>
> I’ll comment what I found on your github issue. For now, I suggest you try
> the workaround as I don’t know when this can be investigated further in
> fabric.
>
> On 9 February 2016 at 21:34:41, cruxpot ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> This is with fabric 1.10.2-1 on a debian linux platform. When I do a get
> operation a sudo user with root privs, I can get a single file that is root
> read-only such as /etc/shadow. I can also get world-readable directories
> that are world readable. However, if I try to retrieve an entire directory
> that is root read-only, I get a null result returned from get.
>
> Here is the line of code that causes the issue. I have tried this with
> both temp_dir set to a /tmp/subdir and not setting temp_dir at all.
>
> getresult = get(remote_path=self.getfile,
> local_path=os.path.join(self.output_path, subdir), use_sudo=True,
> temp_dir=self.dirname)
>
> values:
> localpath: './folder' , remotepath: '/root', temp_dir: '/tmp/DkoK8aMM'
>
> returned getresult value: '[]'
>
> If I retrieve folder /root/* with the glob instead, I get this error:
> Fatal error: get() encountered an exception while downloading '/root/*'
>
> Underlying exception:
> Permission denied
>
> This only happens on root read-only directories and I am positive my sudo
> is set up correctly as I can run remote commands such as 'id' and I see it
> is as root. user is in the wheel group. and like I said I can get root
> read-only single files without an issue; only directories are problematic.
>
>
> Is this a bug? I suppose I could do a workaround by copying files manually
> to a tmp directory and then doing a chown and getting them but I thought
> the temp_dir option was supposed to do this for me.
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