Permission issue on OSX and sudo problem

[vinchi007]

Trying to enable any alias getting the permission error:

2016-02-14 12:05:50 ☆ Vlads-MBP in ~
○ → bash-it enable alias git
mkdir: /Users/vinchi007/.bash_it/aliases/enabled: Permission denied
ln: /Users/vinchi007/.bash_it/aliases/enabled/git.aliases.bash: No such file or directory
git enabled.

When running as sudo, bash-it function does not pass off to sudo environment:

2016-02-14 12:05:56 ☆ Vlads-MBP in ~
○ → sudo bash-it enable alias git
Password:
sudo: bash-it: command not found

[vinchi007]

When I did

git clone
it required to use sudo. Once I used sudo it created ~/.bash_it dir with root permission "root:group" instead of "myuserid:group". To fix it I did:
chown -R myuserid:group ~/.bash_it

Can we add some login into bash-it so it checks permissions of the dir?

[nwinkler]

Thanks for the detailed analysis. The issue was caused by the wrong ownership of the Bash-it directory. The question is why you had to use sudo to clone the repo in the first place...

I'm not sure whether we need to add a check for that - in theory, this could happen with any project, and the general expectation is that you have write permissions in your own home directory. If you use sudo to write stuff to your home directory, it's pretty much always going to end up in tears.

[vinchi007]

agree, this is local permission issue. However, I think the status should properly reflect that the action failed (enabling an alias) - instead it misleads by stating "git enabled"

[nwinkler]

Good point - that's probably worth fixing.

[edubxb]

I tried to manage this issue in #833, can you test it @vinchi007?

Thanks!

[NoahGorny]

This issue is very stale, so I close it. Thanks for contributing and posting!