npm install without root permissions (Error while doing npm install as bamboo user)

[Chandra VenkatKiran Reddy Thimmareddygari]

npm install without root permissions (Error while doing npm install as bamboo user)

Bamboo working directories and source code is owned by 'root' user

Below is the error stack:

bamboo@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB$ npm install --production
npm WARN deprecated hoek@5.0.4: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.7: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x6 4"})
npm WARN good@8.1.1 requires a peer of hapi@>=17.x.x but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN ci-file-listener@2.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! path /disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB'
npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB'
npm ERR! stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB\'',
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path: '/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/bamboo/.npm/_logs/2019-02-08T23_16_30_752Z-debug.log
bamboo@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786/ML-CFLPLAN8-BDIJOB$

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi! 

I hope you forget to change ownership for directory to dedicated user e.g. bamboo.

chown -R bamboo:bamboo /disk2/bamboo/

after some actions.

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov 

[Chandra VenkatKiran Reddy Thimmareddygari]

Up until here all directories are owned by 'bamboo' user

/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir

All directories inside this 'build-dir'  directory are owned by root.

Does bamboo creates build working directory as root?, I see all working directories are owned by root user.

root@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data# ll
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 5 bamboo bamboo 4096 Jul 16 2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 bamboo bamboo 4096 Mar 13 2018 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 bamboo bamboo 4096 Jul 16 2018 backups/
drwxr-xr-x 6 bamboo bamboo 4096 Jul 16 2018 build-dir/
drwxr-xr-x 716 bamboo bamboo 36864 Feb 9 03:01 builds/
root@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data# cd build-dir/
root@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir# ll
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 6 bamboo bamboo 4096 Jul 16 2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 bamboo bamboo 4096 Jul 16 2018 ../
drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 4096 Oct 10 14:51 196609/
drwxr-xr-x 275 root root 12288 Feb 9 03:01 7798785/
drwxr-xr-x 253 root root 12288 Feb 9 03:01 7798786/
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Oct 29 15:16 _git-repositories-cache/
root@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir# cd 7798786/
root@amapps-03:/disk2/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/7798786# ll
total 1040
drwxr-xr-x 253 root root 12288 Feb 9 03:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 bamboo bamboo 4096 Jul 16 2018 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 15:29 10682369-10780673/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 16:15 10682369-10780674/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 3 14:03 10682369-10780675/

[Chandra VenkatKiran Reddy Thimmareddygari]

By the way my bamboo config is owned by root user

Might that be the reason for having underlying directories owned by root?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2771 Feb 9 23:22 bamboo.cfg.xml

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi! 

Could you setup as bamboo user and set correct ownership ?

[Chandra VenkatKiran Reddy Thimmareddygari]

Thanks for the quick response,
config file ownership or the underlying directories of 'build-dir' ?

If I change permissions of the underlying directories of 'build-dir' , won't there be any issues accessing these with bamboo user? because these directories are currently owned by root

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Let's check why bamboo run under root, then change ownership

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/bamboo-remote-agent-installation-guide-289276832.html