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macosmacos-catalinaoh-my-zsh
Tom
Tom

Reputation: 13

Neofetch : acces denied folder .config

I need your help with an access issue with neofetch on my macOS. Here the thing, I recently install neofetch on my terminal (oh-my-zsh), it works but, between the firts line (last login) and the logo that displays :

mkdir: /Users/'MYUSERNAME'/.config/neofetch/: Permission denied /usr/local/bin/Neofetch: line 4476: /Users/'MYUSERNAME'/.config/neofetch/config.conf: Permission denied

And I don't know why, of course, I did many types of research on google before asking you.

Do you have an idea?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1625

Answers (5)

Louis Labrie
Louis Labrie

Reputation: 1

At terminal, running:

sudo chmod -R 770 $HOME/.config

worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

XeninK
XeninK

Reputation: 11

Here is a bulletproof one-liner that solves the issue:

sudo chmod -R 710 $HOME/.config

Execute this command in a terminal session.

After restarting your terminal or, alternatively, sourcing your shell configuration file (assuming you have added the neofetch command to that file) with:

source ~/.zshrc

(replacing ~/.zshrc with the path to your shell configuration file if you are using a different one), the error prompt should disappear.

Note that this only gives 'execute' permission to the 'group' class. There is no need, as the currently accepted answer suggests, to give 666 or 777 modes as that needlessly makes your system less secure (not to mention even no. octal figures such as 666 don't even work as they fail to give the required 'execute' permission, which requires an odd number bit).

Modes such as 730, 750, and 770 will work, but unless something changes in neofetch's future update that demands it, it is unnecessarily too generous and I wouldn't advise it.

Finally, there is absolutely no reason to give users in the 'other' class any permission to the ~/.config directory (unless you have a very compelling reason to), and hence the last permission bit (3rd digit in the mode represented by octal numbers) should always remain 0.

Upvotes: 1

Aceedulous
Aceedulous

Reputation: 1

I was having the same issue and was able to solve this in the following way:

  1. Open up Finder
  2. Reveal hidden folders & files by pressing CMD+>+SHIFT
  3. Locate the .config folder and right click it and click 'get info'.
  4. Under the sharing & permissions section click the small plus and just add the entire Administrators group and remember to change the permissions to read & write for the entire group. neofetch

Upvotes: 0

Jonah Skinner
Jonah Skinner

Reputation: 11

Doing the same as garritfra did but with that last directory line you have there worked for me on a windows 10 machine though. It may work for the mac as well?

sudo chmod -R 666 /Users/MYUSERNAME/.config/neofetch/config.conf

Replace MYUSERNAME with whatever is shown in the error.

Upvotes: 1

garritfra
garritfra

Reputation: 578

You need to change the permissions for your config directory:

sudo chmod -R 666 /Users/YOURUSERNAME/.config

666 means Read-Write for all users.

Upvotes: 1

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