Skipping token checks as the option googleAuthR.skip_token_checks is set

[RightChain]

I've just started to get the above error as of yesterday. I had a stable setup before this. The issue appears inside a docker container built off of rocker/r-ver:4.2.1. I've attempted to update my version of R to the latest (4.3.1) and this seems to fix it for Windows RStudio but not the docker container. The docker container built off of rocker/r-ver:4.3.1 is having the exact same issue. All versions listed below are consistent between Windows and the Docker container.

My process/checklist:

1. I authenticate using a service token.
2. My .Renviron GCS_AUTH_FILE points to the correct location for the service token.
3. I was running R version 4.2.1 and have now updated to 4.3.1.
4. I install googleAuthR (v 2.0.1) successfully
5. I am installing googleCloudStorageR (v 0.7.0.9000) using the following command
   remotes::install_github('cloudyr/googleCloudStorageR', upgrade='never')
6. I receive the following message on package load (library(googleCloudStorageR)):

Loading required package: googleCloudStorageR
✔ Setting scopes to https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.full_control and https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
✔ Successfully auto-authenticated via ******.json

7). I attempt to download a file and receive the following messages while it tries to download:

ℹ Downloading 54133B5339B118D31687E774E6AF241CEC5B19209C373A9BAD1F9CEED9673BE6
ℹ 2023-08-30 15:14:49.920507 > Skipping token checks as the option `googleAuthR.skip_token_checks` is set
ℹ Downloading 54133B5339B118D31687E774E6AF241CEC5B19209C373A9BAD1F9CEED9673BE6
ℹ 2023-08-30 15:14:49.928946 > Skipping token checks as the option `googleAuthR.skip_token_checks` is set
ℹ Downloading 54133B5339B118D31687E774E6AF241CEC5B19209C373A9BAD1F9CEED9673BE6
ℹ 2023-08-30 15:14:49.939348 > Skipping token checks as determined from the execution context and options
ℹ Downloading 54133B5339B118D31687E774E6AF241CEC5B19209C373A9BAD1F9CEED9673BE6
ℹ 2023-08-30 15:14:50.107606 > Request Status Code:  401
ℹ Downloading 54133B5339B118D31687E774E6AF241CEC5B19209C373A9BAD1F9CEED9673BE6
✖ Downloading 54133B5339B118D31687E774E6AF241CEC5B19209C373A9BAD1F9CEED9673BE6 …

Any thoughts as to where this is coming from?

[MarkEdmondson1234]

If it was stable before I guess a library update, could you report the sessionInfo() from the breaking version.

Short term fix would be to use a fixed earlier version (older Docker image?) if you could also report the sessionInfo() from the latest version that works ok it will help a lot to pin point the difference.

[MarkEdmondson1234]

I see you are installing from GitHub which is unstable, is the CRAN version ok?

[RightChain]

The CRAN version is stable and gives the following session info

R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.20.so;  LAPACK version 3.10.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

time zone: Etc/UTC
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
 [1] RightChainAlgorithms_0.9.0 geosphere_1.5-18
 [3] RightChainUtils_0.1.0      jsTreeR_2.3.2
 [5] sortable_0.5.0             stringi_1.7.12
 [7] lubridate_1.9.2            jsonlite_1.8.7
 [9] googleCloudStorageR_0.7.0  DBI_1.1.3
[11] RPostgres_1.4.5            dplyr_1.1.2
[13] RColorBrewer_1.1-3         data.table_1.14.8
[15] shinybusy_0.3.1            shinyWidgets_0.7.6
[17] shinyBS_0.61.1             shinyjs_2.1.0
[19] shiny_1.7.5                writexl_1.4.2
[21] readxl_1.4.3               rlang_1.1.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] xfun_0.40         bslib_0.5.1       learnr_0.11.4     htmlwidgets_1.6.2
 [5] lattice_0.21-8    gargle_1.5.2      vctrs_0.6.3       generics_0.1.3
 [9] curl_5.0.2        tibble_3.2.1      fansi_1.0.4       blob_1.2.4
[13] R.oo_1.25.0       pkgconfig_2.0.3   assertthat_0.2.1  lifecycle_1.0.3
[17] compiler_4.3.1    fontawesome_0.5.2 httpuv_1.6.11     htmltools_0.5.6
[21] sass_0.4.7        yaml_2.3.7        later_1.3.1       pillar_1.9.0
[25] jquerylib_0.1.4   R.utils_2.12.2    ellipsis_0.3.2    openssl_2.1.0
[29] cachem_1.0.8      mime_0.12         googleAuthR_2.0.1 tidyselect_1.2.0
[33] zip_2.3.0         digest_0.6.33     grid_4.3.1        rprojroot_2.0.3
[37] fastmap_1.1.1     cli_3.6.1         magrittr_2.0.3    base64enc_0.1-3
[41] utf8_1.2.3        withr_2.5.0       promises_1.2.1    sp_2.0-0
[45] bit64_4.0.5       timechange_0.2.0  httr_1.4.7        bit_4.0.5
[49] cellranger_1.1.0  R.methodsS3_1.8.2 askpass_1.1       hms_1.1.3
[53] memoise_2.0.1     evaluate_0.21     knitr_1.43        miniUI_0.1.1.1
[57] Rcpp_1.0.11       shinyAce_0.4.2    xtable_1.8-4      glue_1.6.2
[61] rstudioapi_0.15.0 R6_2.5.1          fs_1.6.3

The unstable session info is the following

R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.20.so;  LAPACK version 3.10.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

time zone: Etc/UTC
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
 [1] RightChainAlgorithms_0.9.0     geosphere_1.5-18
 [3] RightChainUtils_0.1.0          jsTreeR_2.3.2
 [5] sortable_0.5.0                 stringi_1.7.12
 [7] lubridate_1.9.2                jsonlite_1.8.7
 [9] googleCloudStorageR_0.7.0.9000 DBI_1.1.3
[11] RPostgres_1.4.5                dplyr_1.1.2
[13] RColorBrewer_1.1-3             data.table_1.14.8
[15] shinybusy_0.3.1                shinyWidgets_0.7.6
[17] shinyBS_0.61.1                 shinyjs_2.1.0
[19] shiny_1.7.5                    writexl_1.4.2
[21] readxl_1.4.3                   rlang_1.1.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] xfun_0.40         bslib_0.5.1       learnr_0.11.4     htmlwidgets_1.6.2
 [5] lattice_0.21-8    gargle_1.5.2      vctrs_0.6.3       generics_0.1.3
 [9] curl_5.0.2        tibble_3.2.1      fansi_1.0.4       blob_1.2.4
[13] R.oo_1.25.0       pkgconfig_2.0.3   assertthat_0.2.1  lifecycle_1.0.3
[17] compiler_4.3.1    fontawesome_0.5.2 httpuv_1.6.11     htmltools_0.5.6
[21] sass_0.4.7        yaml_2.3.7        later_1.3.1       pillar_1.9.0
[25] jquerylib_0.1.4   R.utils_2.12.2    ellipsis_0.3.2    openssl_2.1.0
[29] cachem_1.0.8      mime_0.12         googleAuthR_2.0.1 tidyselect_1.2.0
[33] zip_2.3.0         digest_0.6.33     grid_4.3.1        rprojroot_2.0.3
[37] fastmap_1.1.1     cli_3.6.1         magrittr_2.0.3    base64enc_0.1-3
[41] utf8_1.2.3        withr_2.5.0       promises_1.2.1    sp_2.0-0
[45] bit64_4.0.5       timechange_0.2.0  httr_1.4.7        bit_4.0.5
[49] cellranger_1.1.0  R.methodsS3_1.8.2 askpass_1.1       hms_1.1.3
[53] memoise_2.0.1     evaluate_0.21     knitr_1.43        miniUI_0.1.1.1
[57] Rcpp_1.0.11       shinyAce_0.4.2    xtable_1.8-4      glue_1.6.2
[61] rstudioapi_0.15.0 R6_2.5.1          fs_1.6.3

[MarkEdmondson1234]

So this isn't an error message in itself, its telling you the authentication checks are not being done because a direct download is happening, that is necessary sometimes. But then because those checks are not being done, when you get a 401 unauthenticated error its later than would happen normally.

Could you report the logs and the command you are using with this option on:

options(googleAuthR.verbose=2)

[manuteleco]

Hi @RightChain, I introduced the googleAuthR.skip_token_checks option recently (MarkEdmondson1234/googleAuthR#228) to support storage emulators in this library (#177).

Is it possible you are providing a STORAGE_EMULATOR_HOST environment variable somehow? That's what, in theory, turns off authentication checks (i.e., sets skip_token_checks to TRUE).

But if you are not, it sounds like a bug in the implementation. In that case, the extra information @MarkEdmondson1234 asked for can help us figure out what's wrong and come up with a fix.