Distrobox Permission Denied

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I'm sure there's a simple explaination, I just don't understand distrobox all that well yet

[rust]
image=registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:40
pull=true
replace=true
start_now=true
no_entry=true
# unshare_devsys=true
# unshare_groups=true
# unshare_ipc=true
# unshare_process=true
home=/var/home/nathaniel/Boxes/rust/
init=false
additional_packages="fish"
init_hooks=curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
init_hooks=curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh -s -- -y
init_hooks=echo "starship init fish | source" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
init_hooks=echo "source \"$HOME/.cargo/env.fish\"" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

[rust]
image=registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:40
pull=true
replace=true
start_now=true
no_entry=true
# unshare_devsys=true
# unshare_groups=true
# unshare_ipc=true
# unshare_process=true
home=/var/home/nathaniel/Boxes/rust/
init=false
additional_packages="fish"
init_hooks=curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
init_hooks=curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh -s -- -y
init_hooks=echo "starship init fish | source" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
init_hooks=echo "source \"$HOME/.cargo/env.fish\"" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

I also don't know why .cargo .config .profile, and .rustup are root owned, but it seems to be related and bash also does not have this issue. Only fish for some reason Hey @tulip, you seen this error before?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

seems like selinux is being really mad at you

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

Oh huh But it's in my home dir?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

try doing find . -maxdepth 1 > myfiles.txt on your host and on your distrobox then run delta myfiles.txt myfiles-on-distrobox.txt brew install git-delta you'll see what its so mad about

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

What's that do?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

gets all your files as a list and saves it to a file then you can compare which ones show up and which ones dont the missing ones on the distrobox file list is what is getting permission denied oooooh @Raevenant

tulip🌷•2mo ago

something is wrong on ur fish config

tulip🌷•2mo ago

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69328173/fish-shell-error-unable-to-open-universal-variable-file-permission-denie

Stack Overflow

Fish Shell: "error: Unable to open universal variable file '/': Per...

I am using the Fish shell (version 3.3.1) on MacOS. Every time I run a command it shows this error multiple times: error: Unable to open universal variable file '/': Permission denied The commands

tulip🌷•2mo ago

try clearing it up then re-add stuff and see what breaks it

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

Hmmmmm But it happens I think because the config is root Like, fish works fine if I remove the init_hooks bit

tulip🌷•2mo ago

also highly recommend not putting this stuff on init_hooks

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

Oh What instead?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

try making a custom distrobox image with boxkit

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

Oh 😂

tulip🌷•2mo ago

then put a Justfile in /usr/share/yourthing/Justfile and some alias for it or something myboxjust then BAM you have the same functionality its just "optional"

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

Honestly that works for me lmao a few of the things I want to add need like, API keys n stuff

tulip🌷•2mo ago

i think the thing is that the init_hooks part is being run as root on the container and its making it so your regular user bound to the container doesnt get read access to the fish config

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

Yuuuuuup

tulip🌷•2mo ago

or dunno

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

I'll give this a shot and get back to you 😄

tulip🌷•2mo ago

just know you cant modify /home on the containerfile

tulip🌷•2mo ago

https://github.com/tulilirockz/treats

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tulip🌷•2mo ago

was testing out some stuff so its all broken but there you go

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

meaning I would still need to do a distrobox assemble create with a modification to the home?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

youd need to do something like putting a justfile in /usr or /etc on the container its better than doing it via an init_hook but its manual, as in you need to run just -f /etc/Justfile to get ur stuff for example

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

I'm confused running that inside the container? or as in using just to build the image? just is like make right?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

just whenever you are running the distrobox like on ur host not on the container build

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

oh would this replace the normal distrobox commands? i.e. the terminal wouldn't have a dropdown for it?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

i guess you can just put like a script on your $HOME and do whatever you wanna do? it would be like:

distrobox enter mything
# then you run just inside the container to set it up
just -f /etc/justfile

distrobox enter mything
# then you run just inside the container to set it up
just -f /etc/justfile

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

oh gotcha. I went through your repo, and it makes sense to me how would you handle needing an API key or secrets in your image deployment?

tulip🌷•2mo ago

i think the same way you'd do that with any other docker image github secrets and maybe a private registry?

RaevenantOP•2mo ago

I was a little distracted when I was asking this all before, buy why is it not recommended to do init_hook stuff? (I'm still going to do the custom image approach I think) It looks cleaner

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