cli: cf login with certain options results in rename Access is denied error message

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Describe the bug and the command you saw an issue with Trying to run cf login -a <api url> -o <org> -s Dev --sso but it does not work and instead returns Error writing config: rename C:\Users\<username>\.cf\temp-config696932450 C:\Users\<username>\.cf\config.json: Access is denied.

What happened C:\Users\<username>\.cf\temp-config696932450 and C:\Users\<username>\.cf\config.json are left on file system. Inspecting config.json it looks incomplete. Manually moving temp-config696932450 to config.json appears to result in it working until next login.

Expected behavior This command logs in without errors

To Reproduce

  1. Run cf login -a <api url> -o <org> -s Dev --sso
  2. Enter Temporary Authentication Code
  3. See error

Provide more context

  • Windows 10
  • cf login worked in this way through 6.46.1. Starting with 6.47.1 this no longer works.
  • note 6.47 refactored how cf login works which probably broke this - see https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/releases/tag/v6.47.0
  • Git bash, PowerShell, CMD… all same error
  • still broken in 6.51.0
  • API version: 3.66.0
  • I have confirmed with multiple users they have same issue
  • I have tried to catch what might be locking config.json using Process Explorer, Resource Monitor, etc. but none seem to catch anything locking config.json

About this issue

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  • State: open
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions: 2
  • Comments: 24 (12 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@nickjameswebb as best as I can tell this fixes the issue. I haven’t been able to reproduce Error writing config: rename C:\Users\<username>\.cf\temp-config696932450 C:\Users\<username>\.cf\config.json: Access is denied. message with dev build when at same time I was sometimes able to with installed version 6.52.0+b086fe522.2020-08-26.

@nickjameswebb yep. A dev build would be best for me.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 10:44 AM Nick Webb notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @bbodenmiller https://github.com/bbodenmiller,

We’ve discovered a few problems with the way we handle writing to config.json that seem related to the error you are seeing. However, we still haven’t been able to reproduce the error using your cf login workflow, we aren’t sure that the bugs we’ve found are the actual underlying cause of your issue, and we obviously can’t test against your antivirus. Would you be comfortable with running a Dev build of the CLI on your machine to test whether our changes fix your issue? We can provide a binary or you can build from a branch.

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