bug: programs.rbw broken

[srhb]

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Issue description

rbw has begun trying to mutate its own config file during normal use. This obviously breaks.

rbw get: failed to save config to /home/sarah/.config/rbw/config.json: Read-only file system (os error 30)

Maintainer CC

@ambroisie

System information

❯ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.10.79, NixOS, 21.11 (Porcupine)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.5pre20211007_844dd90`
 - channels(root): `""`
 - channels(sarah): `""`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/sarah/src/nixpkgs`

[rycee]

That's kind of a bummer. We don't really have a good response to such program behavior in HM. I guess we could make the module install the file using an activation block but that's kind of ugly and would only apply during activation. I hope this can be fixed upstream instead 🙂

[srhb]

Agreed! Just tracking here, hope that's okay. :) I'm sure we can work something out with upstream.

[akho]

For now, setting device_id works and prevents rbw from misbehaving

  programs.rbw.settings.device_id = "<put uuid here>";

Not a good long-term solution at all, though.

[ivankovnatsky]

This is related to this:

• API request returned error: 400 (CAPTCHA implementation) doy/rbw#71
• Changes to CLI authentication? (Additional authentication required) bitwarden/cli#383

Agreed! Just tracking here, hope that's okay. :) I'm sure we can work something out with upstream.

so the upstream here being probably bitwarden not rbw.

While device_id is obviously will be different for a different machine this makes a bit harder to keep a declarative configuration of rbw. I myself configuring that out of HM for now.

[berbiche]

Should we mark the module as broken somehow?
If "settings is a set and it does not contain a device_id" then we print a warning?

[ivankovnatsky]

Nah, it should be fixed in 1.4.2: doy/rbw@42badc1.

nixpkgs@master already got 1.4.3.

Running fine on my side on 1.4.3 overlay. Device ID file placed here: .local/share/rbw/device_id

[berbiche]

Alright, this can be marked as resolved then!