[bitnami/rclone] cannot create temp config file from environment variables

[vladoski]

Name and Version

bitnami/rclone:1.69.1

What architecture are you using?

amd64

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. Pull and run bitami/rclone:1.69.1
2. Run the image without any rclone.conf files, add your rclone configs as environment variables like RCLONE_CONFIG_<SOURCENAME>_URL
3. Run a sync or copy rclone command between a source and another destination

What is the expected behavior?

The expected behaviour is simply to execute the copy or sync command correctly.

What do you see instead?

Config file "/config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
Failed to save config after 10 tries: failed to create temp file for new config: open /.rclone.conf4240129501: permission denied

Additional information

I think that the main issue is that rclone tries to create a temp config file in the user's home directory.

In bitnami/rclone, the user uid is 1001, without username where the home directory is / so rclone tries to write the config temp file in /.

I've tried following rclone docs, setting the RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR, setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME but nothing worked. It seems that rclone tries to write the temp file still in / and then moving it to its config directory.
See https://rclone.org/docs/#config-config-file

This issue does not occur with rclone/rclone:1.69.1, since its user is root.

[javsalgar]

Hi!

Thank you so much for reporting. As a workaround, could you try setting the env var HOME=/tmp?

[vladoski]

Hi yes, forcing $HOME to /tmp works indeed.

To be fair this seems an rclone logging issue, mostly because I've seen that after logging those Failed to save config after 10 tries... in error, if I run rclone with -vv flags, I can see that rclone works indeed as intended, maybe because writes that temp file elsewhere after trying to write it on /.

I don't really understand why they are logging that as an error since it should be at most a warning.

I don't really know if this should be considered an image issue.

[vladoski]

FYI also works by setting $TMPDIR=/tmp or RCLONE_TEMP_DIR, RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR and XDG_CONFIG_HOME to /tmp

[javsalgar]

Hi,

Thanks for letting us know. Maybe it's worth mentioning this to the rclone devs?

[vladoski]

Yes I already did that

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