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Former Member
3 years ago

Running op under WSL with systemd turned on gives error message

Running op under WSL when having the new https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-is-now-available-in-wsl/ will give the following error message:

❯ op whoami
couldn't start daemon: open /run/user/1000/op-daemon.pid: permission denied
Shorthand: my
URL: https://my.1password.com
<info removed>

I have XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000/ in my environment and the uid of the running user is 1000.

Any idea if this message can be fixed? I tried just as a temp fix setting OP_CACHE=false but that still produces the message

EDIT: Specifically it's Debian 11 under WSL

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7 Replies

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    Perfect, we are happy to hear that! Thank you for letting us know!

    Amanda

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    So I had systemd turned on off on my wsl instance until now, I turned it on to test if I had access /run/user/1000/op-daemon.pid but first just quickly ran op whoami to see if it was still not working, well surprisingly no error is now showing up. So something was fixed either on 1Password's end or on Microsoft's end. Either way, it works now!

  • andi_t_1P's avatar
    andi_t_1P
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    3 years ago

    Hi @thisdevdane and oliverroos ! This is usually an error that users who would run the cli on another machine would get because their user (who owns the cli process) would lack permissions to most files on the host filesystem. Since WSL uses a VM behind the scenes, could you double check that the process running the cli has permissions to access run/user/1000/op-daemon.pid?

  • Jack_P_1P's avatar
    Jack_P_1P
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    3 years ago

    Hi @thisdevdane:

    Thanks for letting us know about this! I've filed an issue internally to see if we can sort this out.

    Jack

    ref: dev/b5/op#3299