Re: ACL error with 4.18

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 2:27 AM Malik Rumi <malik(dot)a(dot)rumi(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I just upgraded from 2.0. That's a big leap, so I fully expected issues,
> with my learning curve if not with the software itself. But to my delight
> everything seems to be in the same places and work the same way, and the
> interface is much nicer, too.
>
> My one issue (so far) is this warning I got on calling pga4 from the
> command line:
>
> "WARNING: Failed to set ACL on the directory containing the configuration
> database: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/lib/pgadmin'"
>
>
> Looks like you have deployed pgAdmin 4 in the server mode
and '/var/lib/pgadmin' is the default storage directory for the server
mode.
There are 2 options, either you can set the appropriate permissions
on /var/lib/pgadmin or you can change this setting by overriding this
config param. To override the config params, please refer,
https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.18/config_py.html

Thanks,
Khushboo

> In all of Google, there is only one exact match for this search query. It
> is only 3 weeks old but it is not in English. What I see elsewhere all
> seems to relate to using containers like Docker, which I do not. Further,
> this does not seem to be an OS error, so I don't think chown is called for.
> My search in the pga4 documentation came up empty for 'acl' and 'access
> control list'. It was at that point I decided to post here, before I did
> something a) silly b) unnecessary c) even worse.
>
> Q:
> 1. Is this warning only for containerization, so I can safely ignore it?
> 2. If not, how / where do i fix it?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> *“None of you has faith until he loves for his brother or his neighbor
> what he loves for himself.”*
>