No access to folder - Githubissues

Nichlas commented 6 years ago

Make sure you are running the latest version of jotta-cli before reporting an issue.

jotta-cli release (jotta-cli version): jotta-cli version 0.4.4986

jottad version 0.4.4986 jottad host nichlas-desktop jottad path /usr/bin/jottad jottad appdata /var/lib/jottad

Description of problem:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Path      : /mnt/Amorella/Fotoarkiv
   Files     : 0 files / 0bytes
   Status    : Up to date!
   ---- The following paths could not be backed up ----
   /mnt/Amorella/Fotoarkiv => open /mnt/Amorella/Fotoarkiv: permission denied

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Expected: Expected Jotta to have access to the folder.

jotta-cli status (jotta-cli status):

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Account   : <user>
 Usage     : 7.43TiB / ( Unlimited )
 Device    : DESKTOP
 Backups   :
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Path      : /mnt/Amorella/Fotoarkiv
   Files     : 0 files / 0bytes
   Status    : Up to date!
   ---- The following paths could not be backed up ----
   /mnt/Amorella/Fotoarkiv => open /mnt/Amorella/Fotoarkiv: permission denied

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK

eriklysoe commented 5 years ago

Same problem, can not backup files outside home directory jotta-cli release (jotta-cli version): jotta-cli version 0.4.4986

sudo jotta-cli add /media/erik/data/Data Error: [7] stat /media/erik/data/Data: permission denied

sudo jotta-cli add /home/erik/Data Added /home/erik/Data OK

Montetobuso commented 5 years ago

Same problem here, I can add my home directory, but it will not copy any files:

Path : /home/monteto Files : 0 files / 0bytes Status : Up to date! ---- The following paths could not be backed up ---- /home/monteto => open /home/monteto: permission denied

OK

It doesn't matter if I'm running it as root or user.

durian commented 5 years ago

Similar problem here, Arch Linux

jotta-cli version
---------------------------
  jotta-cli     version 0.4.4986

  jottad        version 0.4.4986
  jottad        host    margretetorp
  jottad        path    /usr/bin/jottad
  jottad        appdata /var/lib/jottad
---------------------------

I get "Error: [7] stat [...] permission denied" on my folders. I tried changing permissions, adding myself to jottad group and vice versa, but to no avail. Also tried running as user and as root.

yunnanpl commented 5 years ago

Similar, but I have stat permission denied on files and folders... (both as user and root). The trick is that the problem occurs only on NTFS drive mounted with fuse. On linux ext4 partition everything seems fine (as user or root). (No other tests done, as I have no other partition types)

It is important to mention that the stat (when run separately on files or dirs) function works well everywhere, on every file and as every user.

jottad executable : /usr/bin/jottad jottad appdata : /var/lib/jottad jottad version : 0.5.14050 jotta-cli version : 0.5.14050

Linux comp 4.19.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.16-1 (2019-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux

EDIT: Forget my note. I am using rclone now and it works like a charm (for my needs)... I love jottacloud and rclone :) I have synced 160 GB data without a glitch.

albech commented 5 years ago

imho the jotta-cli shouldn't be forced to run as jottad and rather by the user who initiate it. I am aware that this is a security concern, but I think this should only apply to the daemon.

Kimbsen commented 5 years ago

jotta-cli runs as the user who invoked it. But almost all filesystem interaction is done by jottad which if installed using a deb/rpm package runs as the jottad user.

You can chose to run jottad as any user by downloading the binaries packaged as tar archives from here https://repo.jotta.us/archives/linux/ and running jottad manually.

./jottad is enough to start it however it might not chose the same applicationdata directory as if it was installed using one of the packages. You can specify the applicationdata directory using ./jottad datadir /path/to/appdata. This way you can even have multiple jottad "sessions/installations" ( though not running at the same time ).

But the deb and rpm packages we provide will continue to use the jottad user. This seems to be the safest default option.

widert commented 5 years ago

Same problem here

Path : /home/wide/macDocs Files : 0 files / 0bytes Status : Up to date! ---- The following paths could not be backed up ---- /home/wide/macDocs => lstat /home/wide/macDocs/.AppleDouble: permission denied

Kimbsen commented 5 years ago

We have added an article about setting permissions on linux so that jottad gets the required access and can backup folders: https://docs.jottacloud.com/jottacloud-command-line-tool/using-the-command-line-tool/jottacloud-cli-and-permissions-on-linux.

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