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Cannot change root ownership of keybase install #19017

Open ComputerBoy9000 opened 5 years ago

ComputerBoy9000 commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I've been getting the following error when I enter run_keybase:

christian@cfthinkpad:~$ run_keybase ▶ WARNING Permission denied opening config file /home/christian/.config/keybase/config.json ▶ WARNING Permission denied opening gui config file /home/christian/.config/keybase/gui_config.json ▶ WARNING Permission denied opening updater config file /home/christian/.config/keybase/updater.json ▶ ERROR open /home/christian/.config/keybase/keybase.autogen.env: permission denied

every other file in the .config folder has 'christian' ownership, and I cannot change the permission for keybase, which has root ownership. I read multiple threads about this and don't know what to do. Thanks!

heronhaye commented 5 years ago

Can you update to Keybase 4.3.2 and try this?

sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) ~/.config/keybase
run_keybase

I cannot change the permission for keybase

Why not? How did you install keybase?