Unable to install plugin into Debian package installed Kibana

[chrisfischer]

Kibana version:
6.3.0

Elasticsearch version:
6.3.0

Server OS version:
Ubuntu 16.04

Browser version:
N.A.

Browser OS version:
N.A.

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):
First, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/deb.html
Then, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/targz.html

Describe the bug:
I am trying to install a custom plugin but am having varying degrees of success depending on what installation method I use.

First I installed Kibana through the .deb package. Then I tried to install the plugin through the file system.

$ sudo /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install file:///home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip

Attempting to transfer from file:///home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip
Error: EACCES: permission denied, stat '/home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip'
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "EACCES: permission denied, stat '/home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip'"

Because that didn't work, with the same Kibana instance, I tried installing through a url.

$ sudo /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install https://nofile.io/g/1uVmyWrVwUazLCOfIPfG6JWYIJ4tL8KZ3hJZqfEVqJUAw7rtPGEZhyzDapiGprNV/style-0.0.0.zip

Attempting to transfer from https://nofile.io/g/1uVmyWrVwUazLCOfIPfG6JWYIJ4tL8KZ3hJZqfEVqJUAw7rtPGEZhyzDapiGprNV/style-0.0.0.zip
Transferring unknown number of bytes
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Error: end of central directory record signature not found
    at /usr/share/kibana/node_modules/yauzl/index.js:179:14
    at /usr/share/kibana/node_modules/yauzl/index.js:539:5
    at /usr/share/kibana/node_modules/fd-slicer/index.js:32:7
    at FSReqWrap.wrapper [as oncomplete] (fs.js:658:17)
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "Error retrieving metadata from plugin archive"

Which seemed to get a bit further.

Lastly, I install Kibana through a .tar.gz, and installed the plugin through the filesystem. Which worked.

$ ~/kibana-6.3.0-linux-x86_64/bin/kibana-plugin install file:///home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip

Attempting to transfer from file:///home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip
Transferring 38456 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...
Plugin installation complete

Expected behavior:
I would assume all these of these scenarios should result in the same thing. Though ideally, I would be able to install Kibana through .deb so I am able to run it as a service.

[jbudz]

Hey @chrisfischer, thanks for filing. This may be a few things. I have a hunch it's permissions related and a side effect of our current build system. We're working on swapping it out and tracking at #7322.

The short version is our system packages run as the kibana user. The plugin installer will generate new files (w/ webpack). If running the plugin installer as root, the generated files will be owned by root and the kibana server won't have permissions to write/exec files after.

Can you try clearing everything out and reinstalling the deb, and then running kibana-plugin with sudo -u kibana?

If that doesn't work can you try installing the plugin with the cwd at /usr/share/kibana? This should be fine but worth narrowing down if the above doesn't work

[chrisfischer]

It seems that I don't have permissions to run the first.
Sorry, user cfischer is not allowed to execute 'bin/kibana-plugin install file:///home/cfischer/style-0.0.0.zip' as kibana on {hostname}

When cwd is /usr/share/kibana I get the same errors as when it was /

[thekofimensah]

I'm getting this same error @jbudz on 6.4.2 and can't seem to find a work around