Build Forge: Using variable _USE_BFCREDS=1 doesn't work

Andreas Eisenhoffer (15●1●6●7) | asked Feb 18 '13, 8:48 a.m.

Hi,
I'd like to override Build Forge server authentication with Management Console login credentials by using special environment variable _USE_BFCREDS=1.
I'm getting following error message:

AUTH	 Using Build Forge user credentials for server authentication
AUTH	Unable to set user account to permission denied
RESULT	4 (4)
EXEC	 unable to create/verify project relative working directory.

Thanks for any help,
regards Andreas

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0	permanent link Spencer Murata (2.3k●11●59●71) \| answered Feb 19 '13, 8:09 a.m. FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER That means that the Build Agent user does not have credentials to do the 'su'. Whatever user is running the bfagent daemon must have su permissions. ~Spencer

0	permanent link Andreas Eisenhoffer (15●1●6●7) \| answered Feb 19 '13, 8:33 a.m. Hi Spencer, oh yes, will check this ... thanks again for your helpful answer ! Regards Andreas

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Andreas Eisenhoffer (15●1●6●7) | answered Feb 19 '13, 10:39 a.m.

Build Agent user has 'su' permissions ! (Checked this on server command line and then startet bfagent with 'bfagent -s'). Still get:

AUTH	 Using Build Forge user credentials for server authentication

AUTH Unable to set user account to permission denied (hugo)

RESULT	4 (4)

EXEC	 environment_test/environment_test_160 under /home/buildforge on server bflxx861 could not be accessed.

EXEC unable to create/verify project relative working directory.

Don't know what's wrong here ? Any ideas ?
Regards Andreas

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Spencer Murata commented Feb 19 '13, 12:25 p.m.

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Does the test connection by itself work correctly (i.e. passes)? My guess is that that fails too, so you can gather more information about the failure using the same debug technique here:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21267059

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Andreas Eisenhoffer (15●1●6●7) | answered Feb 20 '13, 3:06 a.m.

Test connection shows status 'Pass':

No Errors

Host: bflxx861.boeblingen.de.ibm.com:5556
Agent Version: 7.1.3.0-0-0054
Authentication: hugo
Platform: linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 16:21:01 EDT 2011
Status: Pass
Duration: 0

			
		200 HELLO - BuildForge Agent v7.1.3.0-0-0054
320 AUTH AuthOk["hugo"]
320 SET EnvSet["BF_AGENT_VERSION","7.1.3.0-0-0054"]
320 SET EnvSet["BF_AGENT_PLATFORM","linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 16:21:01 EDT 2011"]
320 EXEC Locale["C"]
320 PTY Pty[*PtyPipe]
320 EXEC Locale["C"]
320 EXEC ExecShellPath["/bin/bash"]
300 HEARTBEAT 1
310 * TERM environment variable not set.
310 PLAT linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 16:21:01 EDT 2011
320 PING PingOk
251 RESULT 0
260 EOR

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Spencer Murata (2.3k●11●59●71) | answered Feb 20 '13, 8:13 a.m.
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If the test connection works, and the daemon running bfagent has the su permissions, then really the only other thing that could cause a permission denied is if the authentication password is wrong. Are you positive that the user/password are the same between the Linux box and the BF console? The last test would be to create an identical "hugo" user in BF and see if that is able to run the build. Other than that you will have to enter a PMR for the issue.

~Spencer

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Andreas Eisenhoffer (15●1●6●7) | answered Feb 20 '13, 10:59 a.m.

Test with an identical "hugo" user in BF also failed. Further debugging showed that the problem/error seems to be the PAM authentication on the server (Linux box). We continue changing PAM configuration.
Thanks for your help so far.
Regards Andreas

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