The user id should be a uuid or "me"

Some times i get this message after a few minutes of use. The only way to recover from this is restarting the system.

I tryed with

/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt cleanup --dry-run

But it doesn’t solved it.

Any ideas?

The user id should be a uuid or me

Hi @jserrahima ,

Do you launch this command as root user ? All bin/cake commands should be executed as web user, typically www-data user on Debian/Ubuntu and nginx user on CentOS/RHEL distros.

eg.

sudo -H -u www-data bash -c "/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt cleanup --dry-run"

By the way, the –dry-run flag simulate the command without executing it.

It seems you installed passbolt from sources, can you tell us which operating system name and version are you using:

cat /etc/os-release

And which passbolt version are you using:

cat /var/www/passbolt/config/version.php

Can you also execute a healthcheck:

sudo -H -u www-data bash -c "/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt cleanup --dry-run"

And a datacheck

sudo -H -u www-data bash -c "/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt datacheck --hide-success-details"

Best,

Hi @AnatomicJC,

Thanks for the fastest reply. Yes, i installed Passbolt from sources.

  • OS release: CentOS Linux 7
  • Passbolt version: 2.13.5
  • Healthcheck (nginx user):
bash-4.2$ bash -c "/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt cleanup --dry-run"
Warning Error: SplFileInfo::openFile(/var/www/passbolt/tmp/cache/persistent/myapp_cake_core_translations_cake_console_en__u_s): failed to open stream: Permission denied in [/var/www/passbolt/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Cache/Engine/FileEngine.php, line 406]

Warning Error: SplFileInfo::openFile(/var/www/passbolt/tmp/cache/persistent/myapp_cake_core_translations_cake_console_en__u_s): failed to open stream: Permission denied in [/var/www/passbolt/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Cache/Engine/FileEngine.php, line 406]


     ____                  __          ____
    / __ \____  _____ ____/ /_  ____  / / /_
   / /_/ / __ `/ ___/ ___/ __ \/ __ \/ / __/
  / ____/ /_/ (__  |__  ) /_/ / /_/ / / /
 /_/    \__,_/____/____/_.___/\____/_/\__/

 Open source password manager for teams
---------------------------------------------------------------
 Cleanup shell (dry-run)
---------------------------------------------------------------
No issue found, data looks squeaky clean!
bash-4.2$
  • Datacheck (nginx user):
bash-4.2$ bash -c "/var/www/passbolt/bin/cake passbolt datacheck --hide-success-details"
Warning Error: SplFileInfo::openFile(/var/www/passbolt/tmp/cache/persistent/myapp_cake_core_translations_cake_console_en__u_s): failed to open stream: Permission denied in [/var/www/passbolt/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Cache/Engine/FileEngine.php, line 406]

Warning Error: SplFileInfo::openFile(/var/www/passbolt/tmp/cache/persistent/myapp_cake_core_translations_cake_console_en__u_s): failed to open stream: Permission denied in [/var/www/passbolt/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Cache/Engine/FileEngine.php, line 406]


     ____                  __          ____
    / __ \____  _____ ____/ /_  ____  / / /_
   / /_/ / __ `/ ___/ ___/ __ \/ __ \/ / __/
  / ____/ /_/ (__  |__  ) /_/ / /_/ / / /
 /_/    \__,_/____/____/_.___/\____/_/\__/

 Open source password manager for teams
---------------------------------------------------------------
Data check shell
[PASS] Data integrity for AuthenticationTokens.
  [PASS] Can validate: 1485/1485
[PASS] Data integrity for Comments.
  [PASS] Can validate: 0/0
[PASS] Data integrity for Favorites.
  [PASS] Can validate: 0/0
[PASS] Data integrity for Gpgkeys.
  [PASS] Can encrypt: 8/8
  [PASS] Can validate: 8/8
[PASS] Data integrity for Groups.
  [PASS] Can validate: 20/20
[PASS] Data integrity for Profiles.
  [PASS] Can validate: 16/16
[PASS] Data integrity for Resources.
  [PASS] Can validate: 256/256
[PASS] Data integrity for Secrets.
  [PASS] Can validate: 692/692
[PASS] Data integrity for Users.
  [PASS] Can validate: 16/16

Thank you so mutch.

Hi,

It seems you have some permission error with your passbolt tmp folder. I guess you should ensure all /var/www/passbolt/tmp files are owned by nginx with the command below:

sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/passbolt/tmp/

Let me know if it solves your issue.

Best,

Hi @AnatomicJC ,

Done. The output command returns the same without warning errors. This problem happens randomly and i don’t know how to replicate. Hope this will solve it. I’ll let you know.

Thank you so mutch.

Best regards.

Hi @AnatomicJC ,

Today i experiment the same error. The sequence is as follows:

  • Login in passbolt and work with the plugin as usual
  • Close web browser
  • Lock windows session
  • Unlock windows session
  • Open web browser again

When trying to use the plug-in again it begins to fail

imagen

And when you click on Logout button and try to log-in again it shows the message The user id should be a uuid or “me”.

Best regards.

Hi @jserrahima ,

And if you run again helthcheck command ? Do you still have file rights errors in passbolt tmp folder ?

You can know this with this command:

$ sudo find /var/www/passbolt/tmp | xargs sudo ls -alh | grep -v nginx

Maybe you are running cron jobs as root ? You can check that by running sudo crontab -l

Maybe should you consider to upgrade passbolt to 3.5.0 ? 2.13.5 is quite old.

Best,