Bacula bconsole - Director authorization fail (localhost)

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Hi!

I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
And my bacula services:

$ service --status-all | grep bacula
[ + ]  bacula-director
[ + ]  bacula-fd
[ + ]  bacula-sd

Bacula release 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) -- ubuntu 14.04
Bacula director cofig:

Director {                            # define myself
  Name = ubuntu-dir
  DIRport = 9101                # where we listen for UA connections
  QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/scripts/query.sql"
  WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
  PidDirectory = "/var/run/bacula"
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
  Password = "password-bacula-dir"         # Console password
  Messages = Daemon
  DirAddress = localhost
# DirAddresses = {
#   ip = { addr = 127.0.0.1; port = 9101; }
#   ip = { addr = 10.0.5.71; port = 9101; }
# }
}

bconsole cofig:

Director {
  Name = ubuntu-dir
  DIRport = 9101
  address = localhost
  Password = "password-bacula-dir"
}

$ netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep bacula

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9101          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      5532/bacula-dir 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9102          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1091/bacula-fd  
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9103          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1072/bacula-sd

So, when i use

$ bconsole

get error:

Connecting to Director localhost:9101
Director authorization problem.
Most likely the passwords do not agree.
If you are using TLS, there may have been a certificate validation error during the TLS handshake.
Please see http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION00260000000000000000 for help.

where the error can be?

P.S. ufw is disabled

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '16 at 13:09

My commands related to RHEL\CentOS and Bacula 5.2.13 (19 February 2013), i don't have Ubuntu instance right now

Try to check your config at first:

bacula-dir -tc path-to-bacula-dir.config
bconsole -tc path-to-bacula-console.config

Then restart bacula director service:

systemctl restart bacula-dir

and check bconsole again

I suppose your bacula director instance has stale configuration (not current from file)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '20 at 11:49

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I had similar problem and the reason was that the password in the director section of bconsole.conf and bacula-dir.conf were not the same. edit the passwords and then restart the services. It should be ok now

answered May 03 '20 at 11:49

Amir Mohammad Baghche sara

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MrEditor97 · Answer 3 · 2016-11-09T15:00:02.210

I have had this problem before, the solution I found, was to remove the quotes from the password in bacula-dir.conf configuration

Director {
  Name = ubuntu-dir
  DIRport = 9101
  QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/scripts/query.sql"
  WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
  PidDirectory = "/var/run/bacula"
  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
  Password = password-bacula-dir
  Messages = Daemon
  DirAddress = localhost
}

Then bacula's bconsole.conf, leave the quotes surrounding the password:

Director {
  Name = ubuntu-dir
  DIRport = 9101
  address = localhost
  Password = "password-bacula-dir"
}

Then finally restart all the bacula services:

sudo systemctl restart bacula-dir
sudo systemctl restart bacula-sd
sudo systemctl restart bacula-fd

After the restart, you should be able to connect to bconsole using:

sudo bconsole

This worked for me (Ubuntu 16.04)

you must always put the password in quotes. leave the quotes has some problems. for example if your password be numeric, service bacula-director doesn't start and shows the error message 'Config error: expected a string, got T_NUMBER...' — Omidreza Bagheri, Dec 25 '18 at 11:17

Bacula bconsole - Director authorization fail (localhost)

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