plugin not found: plugin cache dir has wrong permissions

[gschueler]

If the plugin cache dir has incorrect permissions (preventing write or read to the rundeck server user), then Rundeck will be unable to load plugins, and may show an error that a plugin was not found.

solution: set correct ownership and read/write permissions on the plugin cache directory. this is /var/lib/rundeck/libext/cache for rpm/deb installs, or $RDECK_BASE/libext/cache for launcher.

reproduce: ?

[thorrsson]

It looks like some of the /var/lib/rundeck/ contents come out of the .deb with the wrong owner, which caused this problem for me.
The .deb was installed with sudo, and afterwards /var/lib/rundeck/ looks like:

/var/lib/rundeck# ls -l
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root    4096 Oct 10 23:23 bootstrap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root    4096 Oct 10 23:23 cli
drwxr-x--- 2 rundeck rundeck 4096 Oct 14 21:48 data
drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root    4096 Oct 10 23:20 exp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root    4096 Oct 14 21:29 libext
drwxr-s--x 3 rundeck adm     4096 Oct 10 23:28 logs
drwxr-x--- 3 rundeck rundeck 4096 Oct 10 23:20 var
drwxr-x--- 3 rundeck rundeck 4096 Oct 10 23:24 work

[CommanderMoto]

Pull request to fix this has been submitted as #566

[kcd83]

Seeing this in rundeck 2.0 on centos with the rpm install. Just the cache directory.

[gschueler]

if root runs a cli tool command, like rd-project -a create, the cache dirs may be created owned by root.

[kcd83]

Ah of course, I have seen dispatch create a resources.xml as root too.

Would you expect users to run the cli logged in as rundeck though? Not really an issue for me it is only chef using this so I'll set it to run as rundeck.

As an aside I notice the rpm install doesn't create the usual user profile, e.g no sensible bash prompt.