Docker Container: Could not authenticate via any gargle cred function

[kubussku]

What goes wrong

Authenticating GA within docker container returns described error. authenticating works on local envir

Steps to reproduce the problem

dockerfile:

start from the rocker/r-ver:4.1.2 image

FROM rocker/r-ver:4.1.2

install the linux libraries needed for plumber

RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y
libssl-dev
libcurl4-gnutls-dev
libxml2-dev
libpq-dev
libproj-dev

install packs

RUN R -e "install.packages(c('googleAnalyticsR','googleAuthR'))"

copy everything from the current directory into the container

COPY / /

when the container starts, start the main.R script

ENTRYPOINT ["Rscript", "main.R"]

Expose the container to the host's network

CMD ["--network", "bridge"]

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Obtain oauth token on local machine & save as file in rds

token = googleAuthR::gar_auth() # approach 1
token = googleAnalyticsR::ga_auth() # approach 2

saveRDS('gatoken.rds')

run container with main.r below

main.R
if (!require(googleAnalyticsR)) install.packages('googleAnalyticsR')
if (!require(googleAuthR)) install.packages('googleAuthR')

autpath = r'{authclient.json}' # service account
Sys.setenv(GARGLE_EMAIL = "name@mail.com")
googleAuthR::gar_set_client(authpath)

googleAnalyticsR::ga_auth(token = readRDS('gatoken.rds'))

Expected output

Authenticated Session within docker container

Actual output

✔ Setting client.id from authclient.json
[1] "name-name-123456"
ℹ 2023-07-27 18:13:35 > Using email from GARGLE_EMAIL env var: name@mail.com
Error: Could not authenticate via any gargle cred function
Execution halted

Before you run your code, please run:

options(googleAuthR.verbose=2) and copy-paste the console output here.
Check it doesn't include any sensitive info like auth tokens or accountIds - you can usually just edit those out manually and replace with say XXX
this does not give any more info

packages are matching. same applies to environment variables

[MarkEdmondson1234]

For a server-style authentication like when within docker, I suggest you use a service account key json file instead. There are various intricacies regarding OAuth2 HTTP requests that may be blocked in your docker settings you avoid then.