Restic hangs forever initializing a backblaze b2 repo

Getting Help
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I want to use restic with backblaze but even intialization does not work:

restic init -r b2:xxxxx:test -vvv
enter password for new repository: 
enter password again:

after entering the password, nothing happens.

restic 0.12.1 compiled with go1.17.3 on linux/amd64

I am using Archlinux

uname -a
Linux archlinux 5.16.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:08:13 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

There are already issues reported

But maybe somebody has a workaround!?

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Backblaze now has S3 compatible APIs. Have you tried using that?

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Nope, but I will give it a shot. I assume for that I have to use endpoint mentioned in the bucket!?

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Many thanks for the hint @764287, at least I get a response

 restic init -r s3:s3.us-west-000.backblazeb2.com/XXXXX
enter password for new repository: 
enter password again: 
Fatal: create key in repository at s3:s3.us-west-000.backblazeb2.com/papanito-private-backup/test failed: client.PutObject: not entitled

Looks like I miss some permissions, even so the key looks fine

capabilities:
deleteFiles, listAllBucketNames, listBuckets, listFiles, readBucketEncryption, readBuckets, readFiles, shareFiles, writeBucketEncryption, writeFiles

Have to check what’s going on.

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Ok there was something wrong with my key, created a new one and looks fine using s3. b2 option also works, once the key was fixed. Will feed this back to the issues