Environment variables don't work

[brianbeaven]

Hello,

I am trying to use zap-cli and I am running into this issue upon attempting to start the process. "ZAP was not found in the path "/zap". You can set the path to where ZAP is installed on your system using the --zap-path command line parameter or by default using the ZAP_PATH environment variable."

I have ZAP_PATH environment variable set to where ZAP proxy is installed in both User and System variables and I'm still getting that error.

[brianbeaven]

Ok, now when I try running zap-cli start I get:

?[1m?[36m[INFO] ?[0mStarting ZAP daemon
Traceback (most recent call last):
[stack trace]
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Program Files\OWASP\Zed Attack Proxy\zap.log'

Any help with this?

[Grunny]

For that, you just need to make sure you have write permissions to the file C:\Program Files\OWASP\Zed Attack Proxy\zap.log, so I'd create that file and make sure the permissions are correct. This is where the output of the ZAP process itself will be saved.

[g4z]

hi, on my Ubuntu system, ZAP is installed in /opt/ZAP and this folder and all files therein are owned by the root user.

I (or any other user) can run ZAP UI using the command /opt/ZAP/zap.sh and everything works fine.

zap-cli seems to want permission to write a log into the directory where ZAP is installed. This assumes that the user running zap-cli has r/w access to the ZAP install.

perhaps it would be possible to add a new flag like --output to zap-cli so i can tell it where i want the output written, rather than assuming i have write access to the installation location.

EDIT: i see your response to this same issue in this issue. The problem is when a user does not have root/sudo access on a machine... then there is no way to run zap-cli!

[Grunny]

Closing as #64 is merged.