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title: "Standalone Permissions"
nav_text: Permissions
category: standalone-details
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The kubes standalone installer will make sure that the owner and permissions of the `/opt/kubes` folder is your user.
If the `/opt/kubes` folder is not owned by your user for whatever reason, here are the commands to change it:
For macosx:
sudo chown -R `whoami`:staff /opt/kubes
For other Linux OSes, this is generally:
sudo chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` /opt/kubes
## Why?
When the `/opt/kubes` folder is not owned by your user, you won't be able to write to it without sudo. This results in a sudo prompt when kubes calls `bundle` and tries to install new gems. You will see this:
=> Installing dependencies with: bundle install
Following files may not be writable, so sudo is needed:
/opt/kubes/embedded/bin
/opt/kubes/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0
/opt/kubes/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/cache
/opt/kubes/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/extensions
/opt/kubes/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems
/opt/kubes/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/specifications
Your user account isn't allowed to install to the system RubyGems.
You can cancel this installation and run:
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
to install the gems into ./vendor/bundle/, or you can enter your password
and install the bundled gems to RubyGems using sudo.
Password:
To fix this issue, make sure `/opt/kubes` is owned by your user, instead of repeatedly having to type your password for sudo.
Also, running `sudo` means you're using bare shell with pretty much none of your environment settings or variables configured. Though there are ways to [preserve](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8633461/how-to-keep-environment-variables-when-using-sudo) environment variables with `--preserve-env`, it's often better to avoid sudo as you'll run into different environmental differences and quirks.
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