Minikube: permission denied while accessing kubeconfig

Created on 20 Sep 2019 · 9Comments · Source: kubernetes/minikube

minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox
😄 minikube v1.4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🌐 Found network options:
▪ HTTP_PROXY=http://172.16.63.3:3128
▪ HTTPS_PROXY=http://172.16.63.3:3128
▪ NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,10.96.0.0/12,192.168.99.0/24,192.168.39.0/24
▪ http_proxy=172.16.63.3:3128
▪ https_proxy=http://172.16.63.3:3128/
▪ no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1
🐳 Preparing Kubernetes v1.16.0 on Docker 18.09.9 ...
▪ env HTTP_PROXY=http://172.16.63.3:3128
▪ env HTTPS_PROXY=http://172.16.63.3:3128
▪ env NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,10.96.0.0/12,192.168.99.0/24,192.168.39.0/24
▪ env HTTP_PROXY=172.16.63.3:3128
▪ env HTTPS_PROXY=http://172.16.63.3:3128/
▪ env NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1

💣 Failed to setup kubeconfig: Error reading file "/home/msafari/.kube/config": open /home/msafari/.kube/config: permission denied

😿 Sorry that minikube crashed. If this was unexpected, we wo

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My guess is that the .kube directory, or at least the config file is owned by another user. Possibly due to previous use of sudo. This should do the trick:

sudo chown -R $USER /home/msafari/.kube

If not, do you mind sharing the output of:

ls -la /home/msafari/.kube

Please let me know if this helps.

tstromberg on 20 Sep 2019

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Any idea on how i can access the /.kube/config file?

dedanmsafari on 20 Sep 2019

My guess is that the .kube directory, or at least the config file is owned by another user. Possibly due to previous use of sudo. This should do the trick:

sudo chown -R $USER /home/msafari/.kube

If not, do you mind sharing the output of:

ls -la /home/msafari/.kube

Please let me know if this helps.

tstromberg on 20 Sep 2019

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total 20
drwxr-x--- 4 msafari root 4096 Ful 21 11:00 .
drwxrwxrwx 30 msafari msafari 4096 Ful 21 10:57 ..
drwxr-x--- 3 msafari root 4096 Ful 14 11:18 cache
-rw------- 1 msafari root 427 Ful 21 19:34 config
drwxr-x--- 3 msafari root 4096 Ful 21 10:57 http-cache

dedanmsafari on 20 Sep 2019

it does not change. the config file has read and write permissions but i cant access it

dedanmsafari on 20 Sep 2019

What happens if you run cat /home/msafari/.kube/config?

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