error: error loading config file "/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml": open /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml: permission denied
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When I run commands under
k3s kubectl
, I get$ k3s kubectl version WARN[0000] Unable to read /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml, please start server with --write-kubeconfig-mode to modify kube config permissions error: error loading config file "/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml" : open /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml: permission denied
How should I resolve this? Should I change the permissions of
/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml
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No, do not change permissions of
/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml
First set up your an environmental variable for
KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config
.export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config
Then let's generate the file at that location. https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/389 . This is by-design. It should be owned by root and set to
0600
. Instead copy the config locally as https://devops.stackexchange.com/a/16014/18965 ,mkdir ~/.kube 2> /dev/null sudo k3s kubectl config view --raw > "$KUBECONFIG" chmod 600 "$KUBECONFIG"
You can add
KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config
to your~/.profile
or~/.bashrc
to make it persist on reboot.