mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/deployer/reportease’: Permission denied

[robjensen82]

Hi there,

I'm trying to provision and deploy using deployer for the first time. I have set up a machine using AWS based off their latest ubuntu image (Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS). I'm using deployer/deployer 7.5.4.

The command I'm running is:
php ./vendor/deployer/deployer/bin/dep provision -o become=root -o provision_user=ubuntu -vvv

I noticed on the server:

ls -lah /home/
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Oct 26 20:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4.0K Oct 25 23:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Oct 26 20:20 deployer
drwxr-x--- 5 ubuntu ubuntu 4.0K Oct 26 22:07 ubuntu

Not sure what I have done wrong. Output config etc follows. Thank you for any help.

This is the output:

task provision:website
[lion] dep worker --port 49700 --task provision:website --host lion --option become=root --option provision_user=ubuntu --decorated -vvv
[lion] ssh '-A' '-o' 'ControlMaster=auto' '-o' 'ControlPersist=60' '-o' 'ControlPath=~/.ssh/ubuntu@lion' 'ubuntu@lion' ': 41d127778895ca07a948; sudo -H -u deployer bash -ls'
[lion] run [ -d ~/reportease ] || mkdir -p ~/reportease
[lion] error: Can't create the symlink for multishells at "/home/deployer/.local/state/fnm_multishells/38875_1729976862142". Maybe there are some issues with permissions for the directory? No such file or directory (os error 2)
[lion] error: Can't create the symlink for multishells at "/home/deployer/.local/state/fnm_multishells/38876_1729976862144". Maybe there are some issues with permissions for the directory? No such file or directory (os error 2)
[lion] error: Can't create the symlink for multishells at "/home/deployer/.local/state/fnm_multishells/38877_1729976862146". Maybe there are some issues with permissions for the directory? No such file or directory (os error 2)
[lion] error: Can't create the symlink for multishells at "/home/deployer/.local/state/fnm_multishells/38878_1729976862147". Maybe there are some issues with permissions for the directory? No such file or directory (os error 2)
[lion] error: Can't create the symlink for multishells at "/home/deployer/.local/state/fnm_multishells/38879_1729976862148". Maybe there are some issues with permissions for the directory? No such file or directory (os error 2)
[lion] mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/deployer/reportease’: Permission denied
[lion]  error  in website.php on line 30:
[lion] exit code 1 (General error)
done provision:website 351ms
ERROR: Task provision:website failed!

My ssh config:

Host lion
    HostName XXX.XXX.197.XXX
    User ubuntu
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/server-lion.pem

My deployer php script:

<?php
namespace Deployer;

require 'recipe/laravel.php';

// Config

add('shared_files', []);
add('shared_dirs', []);
add('writable_dirs', []);

// Overrides

require 'deployer/provision.php';

// Hosts
host('lion')
    ->set('remote_user', 'ubuntu')
    ->set('deploy_path', '~/reportease')
    ->set('sudo_password', '')
    ->set('domain', 'XXX.XXX.197.XXX')
    ->set('public_path', 'public')
    ->set('php_version', '8.3')
    ->set('db_type', 'postgresql')
    ->set('db_user', 'deployer')
    ->set('db_name', 'prod')

;

// Hooks

after('deploy:failed', 'deploy:unlock');

[antonmedv]

Looks like a bug with creating a user deployer. Please try to run again provision:user command (delete deployer user and home dir before). Lets try to debug why this is not working.

[robjensen82]

Thanks for your reply Anton. I got a bit frustrated yesterday and deleted the server. I created a new server today and it's provisioned the machine without a problem.