Install and run problems

[ZhuYin1990]

Describe the bug
Describe what your problem is.

To Reproduce

1. Install Multipass on Windows11.
2. Open Command Prompt or PowerShell with administrator privileges.
3. Run multipass set local.passphrase.
4. It prompts to authenticate with multipass authenticate.
5. When I run multipass authenticate, it prompts to set the passphrase again.

Expected behavior
I expected to be able to set the passphrase and authenticate successfully without encountering a loop.

Logs
Please provide logs from the daemon, see accessing logs on where to find them on your platform.

Additional info

• OS: Windows11 professional or Windows10 professional

• multipass version
  1.14.1 and 1.15.0

• multipass info

• multipass get local.driver

Additional context

[Sploder12]

Hi @ZhuYin1990,
Could you try uninstalling and then reinstalling Multipass using the installer? This issue might be from a bad install. If the problem persists can you share your installations logs as well? This page has instructions on how to access your installation logs. Thanks!

[sharder996]

Hi @ZhuYin1990, not sure why this is happening. It might be because of some leftover files due to a previous installation of Multipass. You should be able to workaround this by executing the following command from an elevated Powershell instance. The command will copy the client certificate of your current user and add it to the cert store that the Multipass service uses. Then the Multipass service will restart in order to load the new certs.

Get-Content -Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA\multipass-client-certificate\multipass_cert.pem | Add-Content -Path $env:PROGRAMDATA\Multipass\data\authenticated-certs\multipass_client_certs.pem; Restart-Service -Name Multipass -Force