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Riwaj Chalise
Asked: 2021-02-08 01:04:36 +0800 CST

Must not run with sudo while trying to create a runner using github-actions

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Hi I am new in github actions and I am trying to create a CICD pipline using Github action. I am using a digital ocean droplet UBUNTU 20.04 as my server and I am trying to create a runner as said in ->settings->actions

When I wrote the following command ./config.sh --url https://github.com/basobaasnepal/BasobaasWeb --token DFGFSDF234sf3fg45hd

I got this: Must not run with sudo

I tried to change the from root user to non root user but didn't work. I also tried export {AGENT_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="1"} but no luck there too.

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  1. Best Answer

    The env variable to use is RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="1" You can :

    • Export it before running config.sh using export RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="1"
    • Start config.sh like this : RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="1" ./config.sh --url...

    At the beginning of config.sh you can see the following test :

    user_id=`id -u`
if [ $user_id -eq 0 -a -z "$RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT" ]; then
    echo "Must not run with sudo"
    exit 1
fi

    user_id=`id -u` : Gets the uid of the current user and store it to user_id.
    $user_id -eq 0 : Compare it with 0 (0 is the uid of root).
    -a -z "$RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT" : -a -z Tests if the variable exists and is not empty.

    So in our case we could do RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="0" or even RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="cool" and it would work but RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="" would not work.

    I'm curious what was your issue when you tryed to run it as a non-root user ?

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