boltops-tools/terraspace

Broken installation

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az-z commented

The current version (v 2.2.3) requires changing the owner of the installed software to a "current" user. Unfortunately, this breaks the maintainability, security, and scalability of the software.

Please refer to issue #288 for the details.
TLDR:
"https://terraspace.cloud/docs/install/standalone/details/permissions/"
... If the /opt/terraspace folder is not owned by your user for whatever reason, here are the commands to change it:.."

Suggestions to fix:

  1. create a new user group and make /opt/terraspace a g+765.
  2. update the video to explicitly mention the issue with permissions, so that new users can proceed with their work.
  3. separate gem installations into a user-specific directory, aka ~/.terraspace/gem, or into a project-specific (may not be ideal since projects are usually version controlled... "

Hope this helps.

az-z commented

Wow. Closing in under 2 minutes? This is fast.
Now I do worry about other potential breaking issues this software may have...