Installing packages with non-privileged users on Windows, failed with PermissionError #8013

catPill · 2020-04-10T09:52:04Z

Environment

pip version: 20.0.2
Python version: 3.8.2
OS: Windows 10

Description

Installing packages with non-privileged users on Windows, failed with PermissionError.

Expected behavior

Should detect site-packages folder is not writable, try install to user appdata folder instead.

How to Reproduce

Run pip install pandas with non-privileged user on windows.

Output

ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 186, in _main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 253, in run
    options.use_user_site = decide_user_install(
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 604, in decide_user_install
    if site_packages_writable(root=root_path, isolated=isolated_mode):
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 548, in site_packages_writable
    return all(
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 549, in <genexpr>
    test_writable_dir(d) for d in set(get_lib_location_guesses(**kwargs))
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\utils\filesystem.py", line 140, in test_writable_dir
    return _test_writable_dir_win(path)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\utils\filesystem.py", line 153, in _test_writable_dir_win
    fd = os.open(file, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\program files (x86)\\python38-32\\Lib\\site-packages\\accesstest_deleteme_fishfingers_custard_m59lch'

With pdb I notice os.open raise a OSError which errno is errno.EACCES.

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SanketDG · 2020-04-11T04:47:03Z

Related to #1668

118: Update pip to 20.1 r=duckinator a=pyup-bot This PR updates [pip](https://pypi.org/project/pip) from **20.0.2** to **20.1**. <details> <summary>Changelog</summary> ### 20.1 ``` ================= Process ------- - Document that pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7. Features -------- - Add ``pip cache dir`` to show the cache directory. (`7350 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7350>`_) Bug Fixes --------- - Abort pip cache commands early when cache is disabled. (`8124 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8124>`_) - Correctly set permissions on metadata files during wheel installation, to permit non-privileged users to read from system site-packages. (`8139 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8139>`_) ``` ### 20.1b1 ``` =================== Deprecations and Removals ------------------------- - Remove emails from AUTHORS.txt to prevent usage for spamming, and only populate names in AUTHORS.txt at time of release (`5979 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5979>`_) - Remove deprecated ``--skip-requirements-regex`` option. (`7297 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7297>`_) - Building of local directories is now done in place, instead of a temporary location containing a copy of the directory tree. (`7555 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7555>`_) - Remove unused ``tests/scripts/test_all_pip.py`` test script and the ``tests/scripts`` folder. (`7680 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7680>`_) Features -------- - pip now implements PEP 610, so ``pip freeze`` has better fidelity in presence of distributions installed from Direct URL requirements. (`609 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/609>`_) - Add ``pip cache`` command for inspecting/managing pip's wheel cache. (`6391 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6391>`_) - Raise error if ``--user`` and ``--target`` are used together in ``pip install`` (`7249 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7249>`_) - Significantly improve performance when ``--find-links`` points to a very large HTML page. (`7729 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7729>`_) - Indicate when wheel building is skipped, due to lack of the ``wheel`` package. (`7768 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7768>`_) - Change default behaviour to always cache responses from trusted-host source. (`7847 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7847>`_) - An alpha version of a new resolver is available via ``--unstable-feature=resolver``. (`988 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988>`_) Bug Fixes --------- - Correctly freeze a VCS editable package when it is nested inside another VCS repository. (`3988 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3988>`_) - Correctly handle ``%2F`` in URL parameters to avoid accidentally unescape them into ``/``. (`6446 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6446>`_) - Reject VCS URLs with an empty revision. (`7402 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7402>`_) - Warn when an invalid URL is passed with ``--index-url`` (`7430 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7430>`_) - Use better mechanism for handling temporary files, when recording metadata about installed files (RECORD) and the installer (INSTALLER). (`7699 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7699>`_) - Correctly detect global site-packages availability of virtual environments created by PyPA’s virtualenv>=20.0. (`7718 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7718>`_) - Remove current directory from ``sys.path`` when invoked as ``python -m pip <command>`` (`7731 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7731>`_) - Stop failing uninstallation, when trying to remove non-existent files. (`7856 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7856>`_) - Prevent an infinite recursion with ``pip wheel`` when ``$TMPDIR`` is within the source directory. (`7872 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7872>`_) - Significantly speedup ``pip list --outdated`` by parallelizing index interaction. (`7962 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7962>`_) - Improve Windows compatibility when detecting writability in folder. (`8013 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8013>`_) Vendored Libraries ------------------ - Update semi-supported debundling script to reflect that appdirs is vendored. - Add ResolveLib as a vendored dependency. - Upgrade certifi to 2020.04.05.1 - Upgrade contextlib2 to 0.6.0.post1 - Upgrade distro to 1.5.0. - Upgrade idna to 2.9. - Upgrade msgpack to 1.0.0. - Upgrade packaging to 20.3. - Upgrade pep517 to 0.8.2. - Upgrade pyparsing to 2.4.7. - Remove pytoml as a vendored dependency. - Upgrade requests to 2.23.0. - Add toml as a vendored dependency. - Upgrade urllib3 to 1.25.8. Improved Documentation ---------------------- - Emphasize that VCS URLs using git, git+git and git+http are insecure due to lack of authentication and encryption (`1983 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1983>`_) - Clarify the usage of --no-binary command. (`3191 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3191>`_) - Clarify the usage of freeze command in the example of Using pip in your program (`7008 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7008>`_) - Add a "Copyright" page. (`7767 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7767>`_) - Added example of defining multiple values for options which support them (`7803 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7803>`_) ``` </details> <details> <summary>Links</summary> - PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pip - Changelog: https://pyup.io/changelogs/pip/ - Homepage: https://pip.pypa.io/ </details> Co-authored-by: pyup-bot <[email protected]>

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catPill mentioned this issue Apr 12, 2020

Fix Windows folder writable detection #8025

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Installing packages with non-privileged users on Windows, failed with PermissionError #8013

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SanketDG commented Apr 11, 2020

Installing packages with non-privileged users on Windows, failed with PermissionError #8013

Installing packages with non-privileged users on Windows, failed with PermissionError #8013

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