Can't run any firebase commands, permission denied

[kogden]

Alright so I have firebase-tools globally installed with npm. I ran into this problem before so I completely reinstalled node and npm to the latest versions and did the same with firebase.

Other packages work fine but firebase won't even let me login.

`Kevin$ firebase login
/Users/Kevin/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/configstore/index.js:69

throw err;
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/Users/Kevin/.config/configstore/update-notifier-firebase-tools.json.536079392'
You don't have access to this file.`

I read that you have to change where your npm stores it's global library. Well you can see I did that with .npm-global. And I set the prefix there too.

Is there something wrong with my $PATH? That should be fine too, right? This problem has been driving me crazy all day.

`echo $PATH

/usr/local/share/npm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:/Users/Kevin/.npm-global/bin:/Users/Kevin/.sdkman/candidates/gradle/current/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin$`

[laurenzlong]

Did you by any chance install firebase-tools with sudo? If you did, the uninstall and install it again with just npm i -g firebase-tools, if you get permission errors when doing that, check out this page for how to fix: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions

[kogden]

I don't believe so, I've been extremely careful not to use sudo again.

Here's what fixed me. Hope this helps someone if they run into the same problem.

sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config/configstore

Closing.

[laurenzlong]

Thanks for sharing!

[kirtirajsinh]

I don't believe so, I've been extremely careful not to use sudo again.

Here's what fixed me. Hope this helps someone if they run into the same problem.

sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config/configstore

Closing.

Still getting the same error.

[mansisinghal25]

@kogden Thank you so much!! This command worked for me. I had installed firebase using sudo.

[kattatzu]

I solve with:

chmod +x ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin/firebase

[Wxh16144]

I don't believe so, I've been extremely careful not to use sudo again.

Here's what fixed me. Hope this helps someone if they run into the same problem.

sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config/configstore

Closing.

This command is not valid for me, but I can use sudo to reinstall it

[calebcadainoo]

Did you by any chance install firebase-tools with sudo? If you did, the uninstall and install it again with just npm i -g firebase-tools, if you get permission errors when doing that, check out this page for how to fix: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions

Worked for me 😉