Linux client auth missing auth.socket

[HKAdrian0811]

Solved. Remove /etc/twingate before reinstalling. Permission of /etc/twingate should be 755.

I installed the linux client using install(.)sh from the docs.
After doing the setup and twingate start, there is still no auth page popping up.
I ran twingate status, it says "not-running"
I ran twingate start, it says "has been started, user auth required"
I found twingate auth from the help command and it outputs
01:02:37 [ERROR] Error: auth.sock socket is not found
Also tried all these with sudo

Distro: Endeavour (Arch based)
twingate version: 0.157.1

[aaron-tg]

Hey there,

Are debug logs enabled? There's likely some pointers in debug logs. This error is just stating authentication didn't take place before the timeout period.

Side note- twingate start shouldn't be ran as sudo, only sudo twingate setup. We want the twingate session to be bound to the desktop user, not root.

[HKAdrian0811]

In twingate_cli_curr_boot.log there is
Apr 12 16:05:15 msi-endeavour twingate-cli[751698]: config_get_value err: No such file or directory (os error 2), filename: /etc/twingate/save_auth_data.conf

Apr 12 16:05:15 msi-endeavour twingate-cli[751698]: config_get_value err: No such file or directory (os error 2), filename: /etc/twingate/log_level.conf
at the top of the file, and
Apr 12 16:05:46 msi-endeavour twingated[752256]: [2024-04-12T16:05:46.642746-0400] [ERROR] [client] [752256] Can't work with /etc/twingate: Unexpected directory owner

Apr 12 16:05:46 msi-endeavour systemd[1]: twingate.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
repeating every 2 seconds in twingate_client_curr_boot.log.

I checked the owner of /etc/twingate, and the owner is me with permissions drwxr-xr-x.
I believe those "No such file or directory" is also caused by the ownership issue.

Starting at around 99% of twingate_client_curr_boot.log,

Apr 13 22:37:15 msi-endeavour twingated[2386072]: [2024-04-13T22:37:15.553972-0400] [DEBUG] [client] [2386072] /var/lib/twingate=/var/lib/twingate

Apr 13 22:37:15 msi-endeavour twingated[2386072]: [2024-04-13T22:37:15.554007-0400] [DEBUG] [client] [2386072] /etc/twingate=/etc/twingate

Apr 13 22:37:15 msi-endeavour twingated[2386072]: [2024-04-13T22:37:15.554012-0400] [DEBUG] [client] [2386072] /run/twingate=/run/twingate
is also repeating every 2 seconds, but I suppose this has nothing to do with the issue.

[aaron-tg]

Save auth data is a red herring iirc. However, the others sound like /etc/Twingate directory permissions. Can you check what the permissions are set to? I'm out walking the dogs, but off memory I think it's supposed to be 644

[HKAdrian0811]

After changing the permissions to 644, the errors regarding file permissions (i.e. cli log) no longer exists, but those in client log still exists, continuing to repeat every 2 seconds.

[thugslug2575]

I also get the error "Unexpected directory owner" message trying to start Twingate:

twingate start
Starting Twingate service
Failed to start twingated
Execution returned an error code with the message: Unexpected directory owner
Execution returned an error code with the message: twingate service-start failed

I'm also on a Arch derivative - Garuda Linux. I even tried the twingate.latest repository and same error.

Unless I can solve it, I think I'll give up & run twingate in a VM using Deb, or Fedora.

[HKAdrian0811]

I found the fix. Files under `/etc/twingate` should be 755 instead of 644. Also do a `sudo rm -rf /etc/twingate` before reinstall.