Hi Scott and Dustin, long time no see :-) I guess none of you bothers about this being fixed in Xenial anymore, let me update the assignments and status to reflect that.
** Changed in: ssh-import-id (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** Changed in: ssh-import-id (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: Scott Moser (smoser) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: ssh-import-id (Ubuntu) Assignee: Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: ssh-import-id Assignee: Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of नेपाली भाषा समायोजकहरुको समूह, which is subscribed to Xenial. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu 16.04 Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570997 Title: fail if HOME environment variable is not set Status in ssh-import-id: Fix Released Status in ssh-import-id package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ssh-import-id source package in Xenial: Won't Fix Status in ssh-import-id source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: === Begin SRU Template === [Impact] Running ssh-import-id without environment variable HOME set will fail and print an error message like: TypeError: join() argument must be str or bytes, not 'NoneType' [Test Case] $ name="my-x" $ ud=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' '#!/bin/sh' 'ssh-import-id smoser') $ lxc launch ubuntu-daily:xenial "$name" "--config=user.user-data=$ud" To see failure, you can then just: $ lxc exec "$name" -- cat /run/cloud-init/result.json { "v1": { "datasource": "DataSourceHetzner", "errors": [ "('scripts-user', RuntimeError('Runparts: 1 failures in 1 attempted commands',))" ] } } $ lxc exec "$name" -- grep "ssh-import-id lp:smoser" /root/.ssh/authorized_keys && echo GOOD || echo FAIL [Regression Potential] Regression is unlikely. The code only does anything if HOME is not present. This has been in Artful and Bionic since 2016-09-16. [Other Info] Upstream merge proposal: https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/ssh-import-id/trunk.lp1570997/+merge/326692 === End SRU Template === I've modified /usr/bin/ssh-import-id to show a stack trace rather than unhelpful message: TypeError: join() argument must be str or bytes, not 'NoneType' Then, running: $ env -u HOME ssh-import-id smoser Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ssh-import-id", line 62, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/ssh-import-id", line 45, in main k = import_keys(proto, username, parser.options.useragent) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ssh_import_id/__init__.py", line 204, in import_keys local_keys = key_list(read_keyfile()) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ssh_import_id/__init__.py", line 135, in read_keyfile output_file = parser.options.output or os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), ".ssh", "authorized_keys") File "/usr/lib/python3.5/posixpath.py", line 89, in join genericpath._check_arg_types('join', a, *p) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/genericpath.py", line 143, in _check_arg_types (funcname, s.__class__.__name__)) from None TypeError: join() argument must be str or bytes, not 'NoneType' I came to find this by trying to launch an instance with: $ ec2metadata --user-data #!/bin/sh exec >/my.log 2>&1 cat /proc/uptime date -R ssh-import-id smoser The basic issue is that the environment that cloud-init runs in does not have HOME set. I suggest using os.path.expanduser def authorized_key_file(): return os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".ssh", "authorized_keys") ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ssh-import-id 5.5-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/ssh-import-id] ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Apr 15 17:36:09 2016 Ec2AMI: ami-929f8cf8 Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-us-east-1/images-testing/hvm-instance/ubuntu-xenial-daily-amd64-server-20160412.manifest.xml Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1c Ec2InstanceType: m3.medium Ec2Kernel: unavailable Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ssh-import-id UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ssh-import-id/+bug/1570997/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators Post to : group.of.nepali.translators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp