sunbeam inspect fails with --client: Error: Insufficient permissions to run sunbeam commands

[Nobuto Murata]

$ snap list openstack
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
openstack 2024.1 507 2024.1/edge canonical✓ -

In the MAAS scenario described in:
https://microstack.run/docs/multi-node-maas
the client is set up with `sunbeam prepare-node-script --client`

However, it doesn't contain necessary steps to run `sunbeam inspect`.

$ sunbeam inspect
Error: Insufficient permissions to run sunbeam commands
Add the user 'ubuntu' to the 'snap_daemon' group:

    sudo usermod -a -G snap_daemon ubuntu

After this, reload the user groups either via a reboot or by running 'newgrp snap_daemon'.

[w/ --client]

$ sunbeam prepare-node-script --client | grep snap_daemon

[w/o --client]

$ sunbeam prepare-node-script | grep snap_daemon
# Add $USER to the snap_daemon group supporting interaction
sudo usermod --append --groups snap_daemon $USER

[James Page (james-page)]

This is due to an errant check in the codebase rather than the need to actually have this permission.

[Andre Ruiz (andre-ruiz)]

Just for the record, this also happens on the 'configure' part.

17:06:58 + sunbeam configure --openrc /home/ubuntu/demo-openrc
17:07:01 > Checking if user ubuntu is member of group snap_daemon ...
17:07:01 Error: Insufficient permissions to run sunbeam commands
17:07:01 Add the user 'ubuntu' to the 'snap_daemon' group:
17:07:01 sudo usermod -a -G snap_daemon ubuntu
17:07:01 After this, reload the user groups either via a reboot or by running 'newgrp snap_daemon'.