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Dreamhost keeps asking for password when installing rvm ruby version

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Problem

After installing rvm on dreamhost, when trying to install any ruby version afterwards, there is a prompt for password, and when entering the user’s password there is the message that the user is not in the sudoers list.

Solution

To be able to install the rvm ruby version you would like you should be installing them by using the following which is based on the answer here :

rvm list remote
ruby-1.9.3-p194
   ruby-1.9.3-p286
   ruby-1.9.3-p327
   ruby-1.9.3-p362
   ruby-1.9.3-p374
   ruby-1.9.3-p392
   ruby-1.9.3-p429
   ruby-1.9.3-p448
   ruby-2.0.0-p0
   ruby-2.0.0-p195
   ruby-2.0.0-p247

and then:

rvm mount -r https://rvm.io/binaries/debian/6/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p247.tar.bz2 --verify-downloads 1

fatal: cannot exec ‘/tmp/…/git-ssh.sh’: Permission denied – Capistrano, Dreamhost, permission denied for git-ssh.sh

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Problem

When trying to use the new Capistrano 3.x to set up your rails project in a dreamhost account, you get the following error complaining that the git-ssh.sh script copied to your account by capistrano cannot be executed as the permission is denied:

fatal: cannot exec '/tmp/example.com/git-ssh.sh': Permission denied

Solution

It seems that Dreamhost, and quite possibly other hosting providers are not allowing executables from the /tmp directory, which is where Capistrano places the git-ssh.sh script. So in order to be able to execute the script you can change the directory where the script is copied in the first place and put it in your home directory. You can do that by adding the following to the config/deploy.rb file:

set :tmp_dir, "/home/dh_user_name/tmp"