Angular-cli: Permission access error

Created on 9 May 2016 · 21Comments · Source: angular/angular-cli

I am filing a bug.

OS.Mac OSX (El Capitan)
Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please
run in a Terminal:
node --version
v4.4.2
npm --version
3.8.6
npm info angular-cli

{ name: 'angular-cli',
  time:
   { modified: '2016-05-07T16:07:33.383Z',
     created: '2014-10-07T04:34:38.078Z',
     '1.0.0': '2014-10-07T04:34:38.078Z',
     '0.0.0': '2014-10-11T11:38:24.914Z',
     '0.0.1': '2015-08-03T17:12:04.553Z',
     '0.0.2': '2015-10-18T17:46:40.146Z',
     '0.0.3': '2015-10-18T21:42:52.445Z',
     '0.0.4': '2015-10-19T01:14:13.216Z',
     '0.0.5': '2015-10-19T09:14:01.712Z',
     '0.0.6': '2015-10-19T09:36:51.644Z',
     '0.0.7': '2015-10-19T11:48:24.233Z',
     '0.0.8': '2015-10-19T11:51:59.318Z',
     '0.0.9': '2015-10-19T21:18:13.725Z',
     '0.0.10': '2015-10-19T22:18:13.091Z',
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     '0.0.17': '2015-12-14T19:37:08.400Z',
     '0.0.18': '2015-12-15T12:51:47.990Z',
     '0.0.19': '2015-12-15T18:23:33.077Z',
     '0.0.20': '2015-12-15T20:39:55.357Z',
     '0.0.22': '2016-02-20T00:36:56.908Z',
     '0.0.23': '2016-02-20T01:44:13.897Z',
     '0.0.24': '2016-02-25T17:41:20.619Z',
     '0.0.25': '2016-03-10T02:10:05.410Z',
     '0.0.26': '2016-03-23T00:39:46.402Z',
     '0.0.27': '2016-03-23T22:05:56.538Z',
     '0.0.28': '2016-03-28T22:39:45.766Z',
     '0.0.29': '2016-03-30T18:10:47.060Z',
     '0.0.30': '2016-04-06T22:27:32.015Z',
     '0.0.31': '2016-04-11T18:20:32.677Z',
     '0.0.33': '2016-04-19T22:31:48.209Z',
     '0.0.34': '2016-04-26T17:56:20.524Z',
     '0.0.37': '2016-05-03T18:49:21.731Z',
     '0.0.39': '2016-05-04T16:29:23.054Z',
     '0.1.0': '2016-05-05T19:41:05.830Z',
     '1.0.0-beta.0': '2016-05-06T18:18:54.950Z',
     '1.0.0-beta.1': '2016-05-07T16:07:33.383Z' },
  maintainers:
   [ 'angularcore <[email protected]>',
     'rodyhaddad <[email protected]>' ],
  description: 'CLI tool for Angular',
  versions:
   [ '0.0.0',
     '0.0.1',
     '0.0.2',
     '0.0.3',
     '0.0.4',
     '0.0.5',
     '0.0.6',
     '0.0.7',
     '0.0.8',
     '0.0.9',
     '0.0.10',
     '0.0.11',
     '0.0.12',
     '0.0.13',
     '0.0.14',
     '0.0.15',
     '0.0.16',
     '0.0.17',
     '0.0.18',
     '0.0.19',
     '0.0.20',
     '0.0.22',
     '0.0.23',
     '0.0.24',
     '0.0.25',
     '0.0.26',
     '0.0.27',
     '0.0.28',
     '0.0.29',
     '0.0.30',
     '0.0.31',
     '0.0.33',
     '0.0.34',
     '0.0.37',
     '0.0.39',
     '0.1.0',
     '1.0.0-beta.0',
     '1.0.0-beta.1' ],
  'dist-tags': { latest: '1.0.0-beta.1', beta: '1.0.0-beta.1' },
  readmeFilename: 'README.md',
  homepage: 'https://github.com/angular/angular-cli',
  keywords: [],
  repository:
   { type: 'git',
     url: 'git+https://github.com/angular/angular-cli.git' },
  author: 'Angular Authors',
  bugs: { url: 'https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues' },
  license: 'MIT',
  contributors:
   [ 'Rody Haddad <[email protected]> (http://rodyhaddad.com/)',
     'Igor Minar <[email protected]>' ],
  users: { altrim: true, seachange: true },
  version: '1.0.0-beta.1',
  main: 'lib/cli/index.js',
  trackingCode: 'UA-8594346-19',
  bin: { ng: './bin/ng' },
  scripts: { test: 'node tests/runner', lint: 'eslint .' },
  engines: { node: '>= 4.1.0' },
  dependencies:
   { broccoli: '^1.0.0-beta.7',
     'broccoli-caching-writer': '^2.2.1',
     'broccoli-concat': '^2.2.0',
     'broccoli-funnel': '^1.0.1',
     'broccoli-merge-trees': '^1.1.1',
     'broccoli-source': '^1.1.0',
     'broccoli-writer': '^0.1.1',
     chalk: '^1.1.3',
     'ember-cli': '2.5.0',
     'ember-cli-string-utils': '^1.0.0',
     exit: '^0.1.2',
     'fs-extra': '^0.30.0',
     glob: '^7.0.3',
     leek: '0.0.21',
     lodash: '^4.11.1',
     opn: '4.0.1',
     resolve: '^1.1.7',
     shelljs: '^0.7.0',
     'silent-error': '^1.0.0',
     'symlink-or-copy': '^1.0.3',
     'systemjs-builder': '^0.15.16',
     typescript: '^1.8.10',
     typings: '^0.8.1' },
  'ember-addon': { paths: [ './addon/ng2/' ] },
  devDependencies:
   { chai: '^3.5.0',
     'clang-format': '^1.0.38',
     eslint: '^2.8.0',
     'exists-sync': '0.0.3',
     minimatch: '^3.0.0',
     mocha: '^2.4.5',
     'mock-fs': '^3.8.0',
     'object-assign': '^4.0.1',
     rewire: '^2.5.1',
     sinon: '^1.17.3',
     through: '^2.3.8',
     tslint: '^3.8.1',
     'walk-sync': '^0.2.6' },
  gitHead: '668ecee86bc9acbf5fc41994802eb263b8b9c4aa',
  dist:
   { shasum: '86feceee719d7a14579ab4486ca3077a1a80a840',
     tarball: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/angular-cli/-/angular-cli-1.0.0-beta.1.tgz' },
  directories: {} }

Repro steps.

While trying to install the latest version of angular-cli I get the following errors after attempting to run:

npm install -g angular-cli

I get:

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This package has been discontinued in favor of lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
/usr/local/lib
└── [email protected]

npm ERR! Darwin 15.4.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "angular-cli"
npm ERR! node v4.4.2
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.6
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/omar/.config/configstore/npm-debug.log

I tried running the install as sudo, but then when I try running an ng command i get the following error:

ng new my-project
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/configstore/index.js:54
                throw err;
                ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/Users/omar/.config/configstore/ember-cli.json'
You don't have access to this file.

    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:549:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:397:15)
    at Object.create.all.get (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/configstore/index.js:35:26)
    at Object.Configstore (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/configstore/index.js:28:44)
    at clientId (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/cli/index.js:22:21)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/cli/index.js:65:19)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/index.js:102:10)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/bin/ng:31:5
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:46:14

Source

omargon

Most helpful comment

Change the owner of npm's directories to the name of the current user

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share}

ricardoleme on 20 Sep 2017

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All 21 comments

Take a look at this comment it should solve what you're seeing here.

Brocco on 11 May 2016

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Thanks. That did the trick.

omargon on 11 May 2016

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The link in the answer takes me on a whole page linking redirect adventure. What did you guys actually do to fix this? thanks!

JimLynchCodes on 17 Jul 2016

Was that random npm video what helped you guys?

I was getting this error:

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/Users/jim/.config/configstore/ember-cli.json'
You don't have access to this file.

It seems like I fixed it by doing this:

sudo chown jim /Users/jim/.config/configstore/ember-cli.json

JimLynchCodes on 17 Jul 2016

👍9

@JimTheMan Thanks! Was having the same issue with ng2's CLI and the previous comment's solution wasn't working.
Finally, can enjoy using the CLI :)

n1alloc on 20 Jul 2016

👍1

@JimTheMan Thanks man that helped.

jUnG3 on 22 Jul 2016

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The root cause of this issue (and many like it) is https://github.com/npm/write-file-atomic/issues/11.

There is an outstanding patch which will fix this for everyone. We're all waiting for someone from npm to accept it: https://github.com/npm/write-file-atomic/pull/13

jimbojw on 2 Aug 2016

Change the owner of npm's directories to the name of the current user

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share}

ricardoleme on 20 Sep 2017

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Hello Please Follow my simple guide to install angular 4 from the cli without any permission issues:

Install the angular-cli globally

sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

Create a new project and skip install

ng new my-app --skip-install

Serve the application and configure permissions

sudo chown <username> -R my-app
cd my-app
mkdir node_modules
chmod a+w node_modules
npm install
ng serve --open

fredericabdou on 29 Oct 2017

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For me this worked

ghost on 1 Nov 2017

Just got a bit of insight - I was running into the same issue with High Sierra. The problem is a script which gets executed by sass during the @angular/cli install, which even if you install with sudo, this script executes as user 'nobody'. This can be worked around with:

npm install --unsafe-perm -g @angular/cli@<version>

KensingtonTech on 10 Nov 2017

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Run the IDE as Administrator to open the Angula folder and it will work as I had the same problem and running Visual Studio Code(You can use any type of your favorite IDE) as administrator solved the problem.

ASrima on 5 Jan 2018

Hi guys I was facing the same issue, my solution was using the following comment

I used sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/ followed by npm install --unsafe-perm -g @angular/cli

dummytree on 26 Jan 2018

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Thanks @citizentim
Your solution worked.

I didn't provide version in the command and the installer automatically picked the latest version to install.

npm install --unsafe-perm -g @angular/cli

kharsha64 on 30 Jan 2018

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npm install -g @angular/cli
npm ERR! git clone [email protected]:angular/cli Cloning into bare repository '/home/jonah/.npm/_git-remotes/git-github-com-angular-cli-515723dd'...
npm ERR! git clone [email protected]:angular/cli Permission denied (publickey).
npm ERR! git clone [email protected]:angular/cli fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
npm ERR! git clone [email protected]:angular/cli
npm ERR! git clone [email protected]:angular/cli Please make sure you have the correct access rights
npm ERR! git clone [email protected]:angular/cli and the repository exists.
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install angular/cli
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'angular/cli'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/npm/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Linux 4.11.0-parrot6-amd64
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--unsafe-perm" "-g" "@angular/cli"
npm ERR! cwd /home/jonah/.npm-global/lib
npm ERR! node -v v8.9.3
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! path angular/cli
npm ERR! syscall stat
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/jonah/.npm-global/lib/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I've tried everything that's commented here what else should I try??

Jonah147 on 17 Feb 2018

I solved like that
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share}

sick

stonkeep on 25 Apr 2018

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I was trying to uninstall cli globally but did not realise I had an app running!

I stopped the app and it started working.

umutesen on 11 May 2018

I just remove files '/usr/local/lib/@angular',and then run 'sudo npm install -g @angular/cli ' again.
It works.

livingWolf on 11 Jul 2018

My npm config get prefix was /usr , so when I did
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share}
as suggested in some comments above, it changed the ownership of /usr/bin/sudo as well. That messes up all sudo commands, so I had to goto recovery mode in Ubuntu to set it back to root again.

Check the npm config get prefix directory before doing it. Don't change ownership if it is /usr.