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Error: EACCES, permission denied '/root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.json'

See original GitHub issue

On Fedora 24 i get:

$yo keystone

Error: EACCES, permission denied ‘/root/.config/configstore/insight-yo.json’ You don’t have access to this file.

at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:439:18)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:290:15)
at Object.create.all.get (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/configstore/index.js:27:26)
at Object.Configstore (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/configstore/index.js:20:44)
at new Insight (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/insight/lib/index.js:37:34)
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/lib/cli.js:130:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:37 (4 by maintainers)

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77reactions

rocugbgcommented, Feb 12, 2016

Fixed this with: chmod g+rwx /root /root/.config /root/.config/configstore

29reactions

dmincacommented, May 8, 2016

In order to make this working in a Docker Alpine Linux container, you need to

  mkdir -p /root/.config/configstore
  chmod g+rwx /root /root/.config /root/.config/configstore

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