Failed to Build Pipeline: Do not run Composer as root/super user!

[tradfit_team]

Hello 

I encountered the following failed message hen building pipeling:

+ composer installDo not run Composer as root/super user!

my  bitbucket-pipelines.yml is made from doc as following:

image: php:7.1.1
pipelines:
 default:
 - step:
 script:
 - apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip
 - curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
 - composer require phpunit/phpunit
 - vendor/bin/phpunit

 I'm very new to bitbucket and docker. Could anyone give me an instruction to fix this? Thank you very much in advance.

[kumar_rahul2025]

No passwd entry for user 'groupadd'

[Edwin Kyalangalilwa]

@kumar_rahul2025,

The command should be

sudo groupadd docker

It's trying to switch user to groupadd.

[kumar_rahul2025]

sudo groupadd docker
bash: sudo: command not found

[Edwin Kyalangalilwa]

Are you using ubuntu? If so you can install using

apt-get install sudo

or try running without sudo.

groupadd docker  

[kumar_rahul2025]

usermod -aG docker $user 
usermod -aG docker $user
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN

[kumar_rahul2025]

usermod -aG docker
usermod -aG docker
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN

Please help

[Alexander Schranz]

The easiest way for me was add "COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1" to allow composer run as super user in the bitbucket pipelines:

- export COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1

- curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
- composer -V

[Edwin Kyalangalilwa]

Run it as a user other than root. You can add a user to be able to control Docker using

usermod -a -G docker <user>

Clear cache of the .composer by removing the folder and change owner of

/usr/local/bin/composer

[tradfit_team]

Thanks for answering! it works!!

[Team G]

i am also facing similar problem can you please explain in detail the steps you followed. i don't know how to run above command.

My bitbucket-pipelines.yml file is having this code

# This is a sample build configuration for PHP.
# Check our guides at https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/e8YWN for more examples.
# Only use spaces to indent your .yml configuration.
# -----
# You can specify a custom docker image from Docker Hub as your build environment.
image: php:7.1.1

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        caches:
          - composer
        script:
          - apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip
          - curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
          - composer install
          - vendor/bin/phpunit

[Travis Taylor]

Would love to see the steps you followed in detail as well.

[stones_junior]

This is correct @Edwin Kyalangalilwa ?

pipelines:
 default:
 - step:
 caches:
 - composer
 script:
 - su groupadd docker
 - su usermod -aG docker $user 
 - apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip
 - curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
 - su chown user -hR /usr/local/bin/composer 
 - su user composer install
 - vendor/bin/phpunit

 I try but is not working :(

[ffmit]

same issue here

[Edwin Kyalangalilwa]

@ffmit Try adding - and make sure to use sudo when running these commands where necessary.

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/composer

It'll help to see specific errors. 

@stones_junior - what error are you getting?