[SOLVED] (Trial version) Run as non-root user inside Docker

QCAD Professional QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
1

The answer can be found at [SOLVED] (Trial version) Run as non-root user inside Docker - QCAD 'How Do I' Questions - QCAD Forum



Hi everyone,

Thank you for hosting this forum. I will try and describe my problem as best I can in the hopes someone has had a similar issue (and a solution).

QCAD version:

./qcad -platform offscreen
QCAD version  3.26.1

Linux details:

uname -m
x86_64

I can add more details when and if required.

I’ve downloaded the following file https://qcad.org/archives/qcad/qcadcam-3.26.1-trial-linux-x86_64.run from QCAD - Download

I use Docker to spin up (albeit temporary) servers. I use a PHP-CLI user (non-root) as default via docker-compose. The following command is used to execute commands inside Docker:

docker-compose exec php-cli bash

After that I used chmod +x to make the .run-file executable and ran it successfully.

I’ve ran the following command as non-root user without it actually creating a PDF file:

./dwg2pdf -a -c -k -f -platform offscreen /path/to/file.dwg

It runs the program but never stores the PDF file in /path/to/file.pdf. When I run the same command as root user it does create a PDF file.

How can I run the (trial) program to successfully create a PDF file as a non-root user?

Thank you for your time.


Tom de Wit

2

You would have to make sure that said user has write access to the output directory.

Also, keep in mind that if you have previously created a file as root, that file might not be overwritable by a regular user.

3

I’ll try again and attempt to write to my own “home” directory. I’ll report back.

4

I’m happy to report this works. I was under the impression the tmp folder was mine. My mistake, entirely!

5

Hi Andrew, could you please verify the following with me?

Why would the following code work:

dwg2pdf -platform offscreen -a -c -f -k storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.dwg

But not this:

dwg2pdf -platform offscreen -a -c -f -k storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.dwg -o storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.pdf

I can guarantee that the PDF file is, in fact, generated with the first example command but the error that’s generated in the second command is:

Cannot import file: /var/www/html/storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.pdf

The response on the first example is:

Converting
from: /var/www/html/storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.dwg
to  : /var/www/html/storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.pdf
6

The last parameter is always the input file. So:

dwg2pdf -platform offscreen -a -c -f -k -o storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.pdf storage/framework/testing/disks/local/test.dwg
7

It’s right there in the description…

Usage: ./dwg2pdf [OPTIONS]... <drawing file>

from QCAD - QCAD Command Line Tools

Thanks, it seems to work as intended now.