# EACCES permission denied **URL:** \ **Category:** Application Support\ **Created:** [September 15, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983 "2021-09-15T08:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aksel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/aksel/32/687_2.png) [@Aksel](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Aksel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983/1 "2021-09-15T08:53:12Z")
Encountering the following issue when trying to change PHP version of a DevKinsta site through DevKinsta interface(PHP 7.4 → PHP 8.0). This issue is likely applicable in other situtations where user input within the application requires any change to ~/DevKinsta\* due to the root permissions set(drwxr-xr-x root root) 10:42:27.844 › Error: EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/home/$USER/DevKinsta/kinsta/sites.ini’ at Object.openSync (fs.js:476:3) at Object.func [as openSync] (electron/js2c/asar\_bundle.js:5:1846) at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1467:35) at file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:880016 at tryCatch (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:5052116) at Generator.\_invoke (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:5051739) at Generator.next (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:5052882) at asyncGeneratorStep (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1003) at \_next (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1302) at file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1452 at new Promise () at file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1214 at file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:880840 at onClick (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1637515) at onClick (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1262029) at MenuItem.\_this.onClick (file:///opt/DevKinsta/resources/app.asar/dist/renderer.prod.js:2:1274256) Additionally upon i encounted a permission issue with Docker requiring DevKinsta to be launched as root from terminal. This required me to grant my user permissions to docker. Temp fix: sudo dev-kinsta --no-sandbox Permission fix(not recommended): sudo setfacl -m $user:rw /var/run/docker.sock ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/michael/32/31_2.png) [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983/2 "2021-09-15T21:48:09Z")
Welcome to DevKinsta @Aksel ! I’m happy to help. Could you tell me a bit more about your operating system and configuration? Thanks and apologies for the issues here! ---
**Author:** ![Aksel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/aksel/32/687_2.png) [@Aksel](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Aksel)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983/3 "2021-09-16T08:13:21Z")
Hi, thank you. I’m on Ubuntu 18.04LTS. No particular configuration related to DevKinsta apart from the custom privileges I had to set earlier as mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/michael/32/31_2.png) [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983/4 "2021-09-17T14:26:19Z")
Hi @Aksel . I haven’t been able to determine the cause of this issue yet. Could it be group permissions as well? [A user here had permission issues as well.](https://community.kinsta.com/t/dk003-couldnt-install-docker-on-kubuntu-linux/682/5) ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/michael/32/31_2.png) [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983/5 "2021-11-10T14:52:47Z")
We haven’t heard back from you on this topic in a while. However, if you do need further assistance you can simply create a new topic on the forum. Thank you again for using DevKinsta. Let us know if you need further assistance! 👋 ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/michael/32/31_2.png) [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/eacces-permission-denied/983/6 "2021-11-10T14:52:49Z")