Rclone curl install issue

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Hello, I used rclone curl install via bash ( curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash )

Such procedure is amazing, but did made a ~/.config/rclone owned by root. I had to change owner manually.

I think that directory above was created by version=rclone --version 2>>errors | head -n 1 row near the end of installer.

Many thanks

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I just tried this on a fresh debian VM and it didn’t create a config file.

What OS did you try on?

Can you move the config file out the way and try again to double check?

Thanks

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Sorry for late answer. Did the same in a VM (Fusion) running Lubuntu Xenial 16.04.4 32 bit

Maybe there was a misunderstanding: it does not create a config file, it creates the dir rclone (empty) in .config dir of user home, but owned by root.

Here is the paste: https://pastebin.com/SiLWpFrx

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I’ll try to explain clearer: maybe running for the very first time “rclone --version” (as in the install script) creates only the ~/.config/rclone directory. But, since install script is running as root, this directory is owned by root and not normal user writeable.
After install, when you try to create a config file as a normal user, rclone fails because of ~/.config/rclone owner/permissions.

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Oh I see! Thank you for explaining again - I didn’t read your first post carefully enough, sorry.

Yes this is a bug that needs fixing. In fact I think it is two bugs which need fixing, firstly rclone version shouldn’t really care about the config file, and secondly the install script shouldn’t provoke that bug.

I made a new issue about this: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/2127

I’ve put in a work-around in https://github.com/ncw/rclone/commit/b6058e0106cb9f155a2e3d5a575dd74c3457bfc7 and uploaded a new install.sh.