MeshCentral GUI update and nologin user

[unguzov]

Hi,

I'm running MeshCentral with nologin user. I have a problem with "Check server version" - it displays "Loading" for a few seconds and then "unknown" on both versions.

Is there a way to use nologin user and GUI update?

EDIT: MeshCentral running on Debian 10.

[Ylianst]

What is "nologin" user? Are you using the "nousers" option in config.json? Or are you using "nologin" as using name?

[dnutan]

I think it is using an increased security installation (user guide: 6.8) with a restricted user without shell access. As explained in the manual, on that kind of setup MeshCentral has no permission to use npm and the updates have to be done manually (SelfUpdate and update through GUI not able to work).

[Ylianst]

This is exactly correct. If the server does not has rights to write it's own files, it can't self-update.