Cannot install even as root

[authy]

Cannot install even as root

[danpal]

We’ll look into it, but you are right, you should’t need sudo.

Authy Support

On Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Douglas Muth wrote:

I tried installing revision 36e726 as my regular unprivileged user and got this error:
$ ./authy-ssh install ~/.authy-ssh/ root permissions are required to run this command. try again using sudo
I shouldn't need root permissions to install something in my home directory, but I'll humor the installer:
$ sudo ./authy-ssh install ~/.authy-ssh /Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh is not writable. Try again using sudo
That's... odd.
In a fit of frustration I tried sudo bash -x ./authy-ssh install ~/.authy-ssh and got this output:

• VERSION=1.2 + AUTHY_URL=https://api.authy.com ++ dirname ./authy-ssh + APP_ROOT=. + CONFIG_FILE=./authy-ssh.conf + UPSTREAM_URL=https://raw.github.com/authy/authy-ssh/master/authy-ssh + READ_TIMEOUT=60 + OK=0 + FAIL=1 + export TERM=xterm-256color + TERM=xterm-256color ++ tput sgr0 + NORMAL='' ++ tput setaf 2 ++ tput bold + GREEN='' ++ tput setaf 3 + YELLOW='' ++ tput setaf 1 + RED='' + require_curl + which curl + '[' 0 -eq 0 ']' + return 0 ++ dirname ./authy-ssh + cd . ++ basename ./authy-ssh + COMMAND=/Users/doug/tmp/authy-ssh/authy-ssh + cd - + case $1 in + require_root + debug 'Checking if user is root' + [[ -n '' ]] + find_sshd_config + debug 'Trying to find sshd_config file' + [[ -n '' ]] + [[ -f /etc/sshd_config ]] + SSHD_CONFIG=/etc/sshd_config + [[ ! -w /etc/sshd_config ]] + install_authy ./authy-ssh /Users/doug/.authy-ssh + source=./authy-ssh + dest=/Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh + [[ ! -n /Users/doug/.authy-ssh ]] + config_file=/Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh.conf ++ dirname /Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh + [[ ! -r /Users/doug/.authy-ssh ]] + red '/Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh is not writable. Try again using sudo' + echo -e '/Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh is not writable. Try again using sudo' /Users/doug/.authy-ssh/authy-ssh is not writable. Try again using sudo + return 1
  It seems like the required mkdir was skipped... or perhaps I did something wrong. Any ideas?
  Thanks,
  -- Doug

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[dcu]

hi @dmuth

I pushed a new version that allows to install as normal user. Please try it and let us know the result.

If you are still having issues and you have time please come chat with us at https://www.hipchat.com/gvVlfV2M3

[dmuth]

No, it did not fix the problem.

After spending a few minutes digging through source I wrote a fix and submitted a pull request:

dmuth@55bd460

At this point, I have to ask: was the previous fix tested? This does not appear to have been the case, and it is cause for concern.