No key file for repository, wrong user

[VVStz]

Hi,

user Alice did a borg init --encryption keyfile ...

everything work well.

root have a bash script to run the backup for user Alice like runuser -u Alice -- borg create....

unfortunately borg return

No key file for repository X found in /root/.config/borg/keys.

So it seem borg look in the wrong path.

I set the up the environment variables BORG_KEY_FILE and BORG_BASE_DIR

BORG_KEY_FILE="/path/file"

but that's change nothing...

Any ideas ?

[VVStz]

export BORG_KEY_FILE="/path/file"

does the workaround..

is there a way for runuser/borg to catch the right path directly ?

Thanks.

[ThomasWaldmann]

No key file for repository X found in /root/.config/borg/keys.

It looks like it runs with uid 0 (not: uid(Alice)), so it looks into the root user's home directory for all its stuff.

[VVStz]

Hi @ThomasWaldmann

Thanks for your reactivity 😍

I'm not sure that it run with uid 0 as:

runuser -u Alice -- whoami

return Alice

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I did runuser -u Alice -- echo $HOME
and it return /root 😬

So it's not borg side

I'll dig around and will post the solution here, it might help others anyway :)

[VVStz]

runuser -u Alice -- sh -c 'echo $HOME'

return /home/Alice

So I'm considering that it might be borg finally... ?!

[VVStz]

FULL FIX

runuser -u Alice -- bash -c 'borg ...'

;)