Fails to create API socket when /var/lib/wireguard does not exist
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foxx commented
This fails to work without sudo, or unless you prepare the wireguard socket dir manually. Ideally this directory would also be a configurable, which could live in userspace.
$ ls -lah /var/run/wireguard/
ls: cannot access '/var/run/wireguard/': No such file or directory
(wg-EWQAmZez) admin@uk3-ph-inf-netjoin-1:~/wg$ ~/.cargo/bin/boringtun-cli -l info -f lol
2024-01-21T12:03:33.061427Z ERROR boringtun_cli: Failed to initialize tunnel, error: ApiSocket(Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" })
at /home/admin/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/boringtun-cli-0.6.0/src/main.rs:160
$ sudo mkdir /var/run/wireguard/
$ ~/.cargo/bin/boringtun-cli -v trace -f lol
2024-01-21T12:06:39.473411Z ERROR boringtun_cli: Failed to initialize tunnel, error: ApiSocket(Os { code: 13, kind: PermissionDenied, message: "Permission denied" })
at /home/admin/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/boringtun-cli-0.6.0/src/main.rs:160
$ sudo chown -R root /var/run/wireguard/
$ sudo chown -R root:root /var/run/wireguard/
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/run/wireguard/
$ ~/.cargo/bin/boringtun-cli -v trace -f lol
2024-01-21T12:08:05.658893Z INFO boringtun_cli: BoringTun started successfully
at /home/admin/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/boringtun-cli-0.6.0/src/main.rs:178