Arango db importer (arangodbimp) connected but permission denied on file collection import

Question

I want to use the importer binary, but it throws " Permission denied " whatever options I choose.

I have created the database test , the user test and the collection persons through the ArangoDB Web interface.

I tried

• Using the root
• "--create-collection true" before creating the collection
• without sudo & with sudo

I can import the collection through the Web Interface and it imports just fine.

Answer 1

Just to understand if it is a password issue can you please try the following workaround.

sudo -S <<< "your_password" your_command

The reasoning is that arangoimp is looking for the password once again and is taking newline as password. Hence the error permission denied. Here the option -S <<< takes the password and substitutes it every time for the incoming password requests.

However, this is just a workaround if it works and not an ultimate solution since it's not safe to have passwords visible in your command history.