Should Vagrant require sudo for each command?

macos permissions vagrant sudo chown
Petr Cibulka picture Petr Cibulka · Sep 3, 2014 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

My question in short: I run into permissions error every time I execute any Vagrant command without 'sudo' - from vagrant up to vagrant provision. Is this expected behaviour?

/Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:295:in `unlink': Permission denied - /Users/Cibulka/Sites/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id (Errno::EACCES)
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:295:in `delete'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:295:in `id='
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:438:in `state'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/created.rb:11:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/call.rb:43:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/config_validate.rb:25:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/check_virtualbox.rb:17:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:196:in `action_raw'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:173:in `block in action'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:434:in `lock'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:161:in `call'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:161:in `action'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/plugins/commands/provision/command.rb:35:in `block in execute'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/plugin/v2/command.rb:226:in `block in with_target_vms'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/plugin/v2/command.rb:220:in `each'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/plugin/v2/command.rb:220:in `with_target_vms'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/plugins/commands/provision/command.rb:34:in `execute'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/cli.rb:42:in `execute'
from /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:252:in `cli'
from /Applications/Vagrant/bin/../embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.6.3/bin/vagrant:166:in `<main>'

I am running on Mac OSX, 10.7.5.

Sidenote

Besides the permission error mentioned above, I receive a lot of other various errors and timeouts, so I suspect that there may be something fundamentally wrong with my Vagrant installation (maybe permission wise?). But as I am clearly no Unix ninja, I'm not really sure what is the problem here. Most of the errors, according to Google, are pretty common and can be caused by multiple reasons (such as "Timed out while waiting for the machine to boot." or else).

Recently, after xth trail, I was able to successfuly vagrant up. I received this error: The private key to connect to the machine via SSH must be owned by the user running Vagrant." After running ... 

sudo chown root insecure_private_key

... my Vagrant seems to act little more stable.

This just a sidenote to provide some (pretty localized) context to my question, so feel free to edit/delete it, if it does not provide any value.

Answer

Petr Cibulka picture Petr Cibulka · Sep 5, 2014

I did my first vagrant up as a part of my own installation script, which is ran as sudo. Because of that, every file installed belonged to the root user, not my current account.

Related:

In short, when you arrive to similar problem, you can always "reclaim" the ownership of relevant files.

chown -R <USERNAME> /<YOUR-WEBSITES-DIRECTORY>/.vagrant/machines/

chown -R <USERNAME> /<YOUR-HOME-DIRECTORY>/.vagrant.d

vagrant up and other command should work without sudo from now on.

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