Could not create directory /var/teamsserver - macos

Question

I've installed os x server (Mavericks) on my mac and would like to add bot. For some reasons my remote repo is located on other external server and I have access to it by username and password on specified port. I've added remote repo to os x server like this:
ssh://1.2.3.4:PORT/path/to/repo.git
...filled username and password.
Then I've added bot in Xcode but when I hit integrate it fails with logs:
Cloning into 'ssh_myusername_1_2_3_4_PORT_path_to_repo_git'...
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011 debug1: Reading
configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20:
Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to 1.2.3.4 [1.2.3.4] port PORT.
debug1: Connection established.
Could not create directory '/var/teamsserver/.ssh'.
debug1: identity file /var/teamsserver/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /var/teamsserver/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /var/teamsserver/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /var/teamsserver/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA b6:b8:0e:e4:25:63:6d:64:a3:d6:6d:7f:46:85:72:0d
debug1: checking without port identifier No RSA host key is known for [1.2.3.4]:PORT
and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository
exists.
SSH Known Hosts file path is located at
/Library/Server/Xcode/Config/ssh_known_hosts
SSH strict host checking
is enabled (you can disable this by editing the
SSHStrictHostKeyChecking key in
/Library/Server/Xcode/Config/xcsbuildd.plist
Untrusted HTTPS
certificates is disabled (you can enable this by editing the
TrustSelfSignedSSLCertificates key in
/Library/Server/Xcode/Config/xcsbuildd.plist
I assume that there is a problem with permissions but in my /var there are some directories with different permissions and of course there is no teams server folder...
So I don't know how to setup proper permissions (without changing permissions of other subdirectories of /var...). I can try manually make directory "teams server" but don't know with what permissions... ? Do you have any ideas?
EDIT: For test purpose I've created teamsserver directory with 777 but that doesn't solve my problem. Logs looks the same as previous butjust WITHOUT line:
Could not create directory '/var/teamsserver/.ssh'.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Answer 1

I experienced a similar issue with scheme action build scripts when attempting to run git commands against a github repo protected by ssh key pairs.
Bots run builds using a _teamsserver system account. As you've discovered, these accounts don't have home directories by default. To setup builds to access and modify their home directory, I had success with the following (your mileage may vary):
sudo mkdir /var/teamsserver
sudo chown -R _teamsserver:_teamsserver /var/teamsserver/
sudo chmod -R 770 /var/teamsserver/
HTH

Answer 2

Ok, I took some time but I've a solution... Two solutions actually. Ashamed to admit but read and understand logs is enough to solve the problem (again :P).
FIRST ANSWER:
My server host key was added to .ssh/known_hosts BEFORE installing os x server. Server does't use that path of known hosts. As log says server uses:
SSH Known Hosts file path is located at
/Library/Server/Xcode/Config/ssh_known_hosts
and that file was empty in my case. So to solve the problem it is enough to copy known_hosts to ssh_known_hosts:
sudo cp ~/.ssh/known_hosts /Library/Server/Xcode/Config/ssh_known_hosts
It's that simple.
SECOND ANSWER:
Acording to log again
SSH strict host checking is enabled (you can disable this by editing
the SSHStrictHostKeyChecking key in /Library/Server/Xcode/Config/xcsbuildd.plist
Change SSHStrictHostKeyChecking to false.
It's done again.

Answer 3

If you've tried the above and still are getting a permission denied error, you probably don't have the right permissions to that file/directory.
Who are you running as? $id
$ls -al the directory that the server is trying to read the id_rsa from (Probably similar to this path: Library/Server/Xcode/Data/BotRuns/BotRun-a28db5fc-1932-47a0-a528-f52c75e421e2.b‌​undle/credentials/65885363-194e-454b-a3ce-56dcaaf5d3c9/id_rsa)
change ownership of that file ^^ ($sudo chown {#id} {#path})

Answer 4

I did 3 things to allow me to get past this, although I'm not sure which of them solved the problem:
Change all git repositories in my project to use the HTTPS rather than SSH (git) version of the url
Disabled SSHStrictHostKeyChecking as per the instructions from the source control log from the bot.
Enabled TrustSelfSignedSSLCertificates as per the same instructions from the log.
Also check out https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5586872 in case this is a problem for you.
I will back some of these items off and test when I have more time.