User not recognized

[50Wliu]

I edited /etc/msm.conf to change the default user to "mcservers" and all the default paths to point to /home/mcservers instead of /opt/msm (the moving directories does not apply specifically to this problem-it occurs regardless of where the server folders are located). Now the problem is whenever I try to execute a command (such as, let's say, msm server create example), the following gets outputted:

Creating server directory... This command must be executed as the user "" or "root".

Yet the command still executes. This is the part that really confuses me. I took a quick peek at the source code, and whoami returns mcservers as expected. It looks like MSM isn't detecting my custom username in the config correctly.
USERNAME="mcservers" and DEFAULT_USERNAME="mcservers".
If you need the entire config file let me know.

[ormanya]

I am having the same problem using Minecraft Server Manager 0.8.16 Beta

[ghandye]

I've been a MSM user for about 2 hours now, and just encountered this problem and found this issue via Google.

Looking through the code, this is a (mostly cosmetic) bug in 0.8.16 in line 1217 of the main msm script. To fix, open etc/init.d/msm in a text editor and change line 1217 from this:

as_user "$USERNAME" "echo \"MSM requires all your worlds be moved into this directory.\" > '$SETTINGS_SERVER_STORAGE_PATH/$1/$SETTINGS_DEFAULT_WORLD_STORAGE_PATH/readme.txt'"

to this:

as_user "$SETTINGS_USERNAME" "echo \"MSM requires all your worlds be moved into this directory.\" > '$SETTINGS_SERVER_STORAGE_PATH/$1/$SETTINGS_DEFAULT_WORLD_STORAGE_PATH/readme.txt'"

The error you see is actually coming from the as_user function. This function compares the value passed to it (in this case, the erroneously empty variable $USERNAME instead of the properly populated $SETTINGS_USERNAME) with the output from 'whoami' and triggers this error if the two don't match (line 92):

error_exit INVALID_USER "This command must be executed as the user \"$1\" or \"root\"."

This bug simply prevents some text guidance from being displayed to the end user (about MSM requiring worlds to be moved into a certain directory). It doesn't affect the actual functionality of the created server.

[renderorange]

@ghandye - Thanks for commenting. If you wouldn't mind creating a pull request for this, I'd be happy to test and approve your commit. I should have time to do this tomorrow either way, if you don't have time to create the pull request. Thanks again.

[ghandye]

Thanks! I have to confess that I have never contributed to a project via
git pull request before - I think this is a good learning opportunity to
figure that out, but I doubt I'll beat you to it!

-Andy

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[renderorange]

@ghandye - I did a bit of research this evening into this. It appears this issue was previously addressed and can be seen in the following:
https://github.com/msmhq/msm/blob/master/init/msm#L1218
My apologies for not catching this before. This evening, I pushed a new version to the latest tag, which contained a number of commits since early 2013.
I do hope you continue to contribute to this project, both issues or changes via pull request.

[ghandye]

I see the fix in master (on line 1308 now, but things do change).

I think I've figured out git fork/pull for next time. Thanks!

[renderorange]

My apologies on the link, L1308 is the correct one.

[50Wliu]

Closing this then since it seems to be fixed ✨.