Struggling to translate a working rclone command into a `rclone rc` one

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

rclone ls works but what I think is the equivalent rclone rc operations/list does not work

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.67.0
- os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.5.0-1023-aws (aarch64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: arm64 (ARMv8 compatible)
- go/version: go1.22.4
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

AWS S3

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone rc operations/list -vv fs="rclone_s3_target:" remote="bucketname/folder1/folder2/folder3"

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[rclone_s3_target]
type = s3
provider = AWS
env_auth = true
region = eu-central-1
storage_class = STANDARD
bucket_acl = private
acl = private
no_check_bucket = true

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

2024/08/08 12:39:35 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.67.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "rc" "operations/list" "-vv" "fs=rclone_s3_target:" "remote=bucketname/folder1/folder2/folder3/"]
{
        "error": "error in ListJSON: AccessDenied: Access Denied\n\tstatus code: 403, request id: ZAQFPNPJMD7BHTJG, host id: 2JO1WEsj/jZjkYpIIJHkrMoAqYEfuT28YLpp55cZOvapxm7ZC66lqGN8GJxDTIVr/BAWx/T1b9UCkc4yydu22A==",
        "input": {
                "fs": "rclone_s3_target:",
                "remote": "bucketname/folder1/folder2/folder3/"
        },
        "path": "operations/list",
        "status": 500
}
2024/08/08 12:39:35 DEBUG : 6 go routines active
2024/08/08 12:39:35 Failed to rc: operation "operations/list" failed: error in ListJSON: AccessDenied: Access Denied
        status code: 403, request id: ZAQFPNPJMD7BHTJG, host id: 2JO1WEsj/jZjkYpIIJHkrMoAqYEfuT28YLpp55cZOvapxm7ZC66lqGN8GJxDTIVr/BAWx/T1b9UCkc4yydu22A==

rclone daemon config

[Unit]
Description=Rclone rcd service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone rcd \
  --rc-enable-metrics \
  --rc-no-auth
  --log-level='DEBUG' \
  --log-file='/var/log/rclone-rcd.log'
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3
TimeoutStartSec=150

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Other info

Hello, Hopefully you can find above all the relevant configs, etc. I can list the content of my bucket fine use the above config with "plain" rclone

rclone ls rclone_s3_target:bucketname/folder1/folder2/folder3

I have not found that many examples of RC commands, but I think the below is correct?

rclone rc operations/list -vv fs="rclone_s3_target:" remote="bucketname/folder1/folder2/folder3"

The Access Denied status code: 403 error I'm getting, I do not know if it's coming from the RC daemon or from AWS? I doubt AWS permissions, since rclone ls works and also aws s3 ls, using the same env vars for auth

I have tried running rcd with and without auth (if using auth i passed --rc-user and --rc-pass. rclone rc with and without trailing slashes in remote. With and without trailing colon for fs. With and without quotations for both fs and remote parameters

Any ideas?

2

If you have config locked to a single bucket you'll want to include it in the fs= thus

rclone rc operations/list -vv fs="rclone_s3_target:bucketname" remote="folder1/folder2/folder3"

Otherwise rclone will be listing the buckets which may not be allowed.

That would be my guess.

If that doesn't work then run the rclone rcd with -vv --dump headers and send the log that it makes.

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forgot to provide an update. the problem was me, I did not take into account that the rc daemon and my user session run on different contexts, meaning different sets of environment variables (which I was trying to use). I switched to credentials in the configuration file for the s3 backend and that fixed the issue. Did not want to mess with system wide AWS_ env vars since it might affect other resources that support them