Question: ... How to fix Permission denied: '/data'

I’m following the setup instructions using docker-compose.

When I run docker-compose run archivebox init I get

[i] [2020-11-16 13:38:31] ArchiveBox v0.4.21: archivebox init
    > /data

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/archivebox", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('archivebox', 'console_scripts', 'archivebox')())
  File "/app/archivebox/cli/__init__.py", line 123, in main
    run_subcommand(
  File "/app/archivebox/cli/__init__.py", line 63, in run_subcommand
    module.main(args=subcommand_args, stdin=stdin, pwd=pwd)    # type: ignore
  File "/app/archivebox/cli/archivebox_init.py", line 33, in main
    init(
  File "/app/archivebox/util.py", line 113, in typechecked_function
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/app/archivebox/main.py", line 259, in init
    is_empty = not len(set(os.listdir(out_dir)) - ALLOWED_IN_OUTPUT_DIR)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/data'

Please how can I fix this?

[pirate]

sudo chmod -R 777 data

[alanfranz]

I’m experiencing the same issue as @junpet on Ubuntu 18.04, latest docker-ce (20.10.2) and latest docker-compose.

I think that the underlying issue is that the docker entrypoint file https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/dev/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh tries to do some magic to drop privileges. But it probably gets something wrong and/or sharing the volumes between multiple containers does something bad to the permissions.

My workaround includes using POSIX ACLs, so you can retain access from the current user

id -u
docker run  -it archivebox/archivebox:latest /usr/bin/id -u

Annotate the two uids. They are 122 and 999 on my box, substitute as necessary.

mkdir data
setfacl -R -m u:122:rwx data
setfacl -d -m u:122:rwx data
setfacl -R -m u:999:rwx data
setfacl -d -m u:999:rwx data

Everything should work properly now.