Bacula bconsole - Director authorization fail (localhost) - bacula

Question

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

Answer 1

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)

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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)