gcloud cannot open path of the current working directory permission denied

Question

I am trying to follow some tutorial instructions to test a gcloud API (called kms in case it matters) but I must have messed up something related to permissions and I don't seem to find anything on google.

Any time I try any gcloud ... command I get the same error:

cannot open path of the current working directory: Permission denied

The issue persists after I tried:

sudo gcloud kms
chown -R $(whoami) ~/.config/gcloud
chown -R $(whoami) /snap

and all possible combinations of the above steps.

In case it matters, the VM is running Ubuntu 18.

I solved this by installing via the tarball instead of the Ubuntu snap package. https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install — Gordon Gustafson, Nov 18 '20 at 02:40

marian.vladoi · Answer 1 · 2019-11-12T15:04:58.367

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I think you should try :

sudo chown -R $(whoami):staff ~/.config/gcloud/
sudo chown -R $USER /Users/$USER/bin/google-cloud-sdk

Or you can try to unistall gcloud, Uninstalling Google Cloud SDK, and installl it again, Installing Google Cloud SDK.

gcloud cannot open path of the current working directory permission denied

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