System Admin Credentials error

cpearless

Have been trying to install Bacularis using Composer and have hit a problem.
I have tried the same on Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop and Server, and have just tried with 22.04, always with the same results.
Having got the web interface up and running (Nginx) I log in and get to the Install wizard. I elect for the API and Web install, and select no I do not have Bacula installed.

Problem is the system admin account credentials I enter don't work... the Test give a red X even though the credentials are correct. (There is only one account!) Am I missing something, do the credentials need to be in a specific format, or is there some privilege I need to apply?

I have previously built a V4.00 from the binary's, and they worked ok.

gani

Hello @cpearless,

Bacularis is able to tell you why this test fails. To do it, you need to click on the text Show result link close to the red X in the test result as shown on this image:

What error message do you see there? In many cases it is missing expect program in the system that is used to provide the credentials to system and that you can easily install by:

apt install expect

Once it is done, you can start the installation. For the Composer installation way, if you are going to install Bacula from scratch, you will also need to do the following symbolic links below to make it working. I this example the Bacularis is installed by Composer in /var/www/bacularis-app. If in your environment the path is different, you need to adapt these commands to your paths.

mkdir /etc/bacularis
ln -s /var/www/bacularis-app/protected/API/Config /etc/bacularis/API
ln -s /var/www/bacularis-app/protected/Web/Config /etc/bacularis/Web
ln -s /var/www/bacularis-app /usr/share/bacularis

The commands with symbolic links are described in the documentation in the manual installation section:

https://bacularis.app/doc/brief/installation.html#id16

At the moment I added it to the Composer installation method as well:

https://bacularis.app/doc/brief/installation.html#optional-commands

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

cpearless

expect was indeed not installed... working now. Thanks for the speedy reply!