<snip>@<snip> ~ $ keybase login
Your keybase username or email address: arinerron
â–¶ ERROR Failed to open session file /home/<snip>/.cache/keybase/session.json.<snip> for writing: open /home/<snip>/.cache/keybase/session.json.<snip>: permission denied
â–¶ WARNING Failed to remove session file: remove /home/<snip>/.cache/keybase/session.json: no such file or directory
â–¶ ERROR open /home/<snip>/.cache/keybase/session.json.<snip>: permission denied
<snip>@<snip> ~ $ sudo keybase login
[sudo] password for <snip>:
Oops, you are trying to run as an admin user (Uid: 0). This isn't supported.
<snip>@<snip> ~ $
I snipped my pc account name, computer hostname, and the session id.
Arinerron
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It looks like the user you are logged in does not have write access to their $HOME/.cache/keybase directory.
cjb
on 23 Jun 2016
@cjb Solution?
Arinerron
on 23 Jun 2016
Not super comfortable offering a solution without knowing more about the misconfiguration and how it got to be that way. You could run ls -la $HOME/.cache/keybase to see who owns the directory and go from there.
cjb
on 23 Jun 2016
@cjb Looks like root owns all the files
Arinerron
on 23 Jun 2016
Credit to @beardog108 who suggested I chown the keybase cache:
sudo chown -R <account name> ~/.cache/keybase/
Arinerron
on 23 Jun 2016
What about the 'Bash on Ubuntu on Windows' tool that is shipped recently with the updates of Windows 10? I hoped to see an easier workflow using the bash terminal, but this error message pops up.
Rubenkl
on 20 Dec 2016
@Rubenkl We haven't tested this and I don't expect it to work.
cjb
on 20 Dec 2016
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Credit to @beardog108 who suggested I chown the keybase cache:
sudo chown -R <account name> ~/.cache/keybase/