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A VPN configuration tool for PIA
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Unable to refresh the gateways list without sudo #11

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

By running the pia-manager (version 1.0.8) in the terminal, when clicking the refresh button for the gateways list, some errors are printed in the terminal:

chingyinwan123@chingyinwan123-UX410UAK:~$ pia-manager The refresh button is clicked: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pia-manager/pia-manager.py", line 125, in on_button_refresh_clicked self.download_latest_gateways() File "/usr/lib/pia-manager/pia-manager.py", line 196, in download_latest_gateways with open('/usr/share/pia-manager/gateways.list.dynamic', 'w') as fp: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/pia-manager/gateways.list.dynamic'

If pia-manager is run with sudo, no errors are printed when the refresh button is clicked.

clefebvre commented 5 years ago

@chingyinwan123 ah.. that's a remnant of when PIA Manager was running as root.

We could save the file in ~/.config/pia-manager/gateways.list.dynamic, and at startup load either that file or /usr/share/pia-manager/gateways.list.dynamic, depending on which of the two is the more recent.