# "msm update" full of "permission denied" **URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970 **Category:** Feedback / Support **Tags:** support **Created:** [June 14, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970 "2018-06-14T20:41:28Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![ubuntourist](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/ubuntourist/32/439_2.png) [@ubuntourist](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ubuntourist) #### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/5 "2018-06-15T17:10:37Z")
Everything at the top level is owned by user “mycroft” and has reasonable permissions. However… see the bottom of this message. ``` total 152 4 drwxrwxrwx 38 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jun 14 18:38 . 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jun 14 18:37 .. 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-aiml 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-duckduckgo 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-unknown 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-wolfram-alpha 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 0 Jun 15 16:58 .msm 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 mycroft-mark-1 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 mycroft-timer 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 pianobar-skill 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-alarm 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-audio-record 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-configuration 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-date-time 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-desktop-launcher 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-hello-world 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-installer 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-ip 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-joke 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-mark1-demo 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 Aug 1 2017 skill-media 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-naptime 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-npr-news 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 13:59 skill-pairing 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-personal 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-playback-control 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-reminder 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-singing 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-speak 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-spelling 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-stock 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-stop 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-support 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-version-checker 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 13:59 skill-volume 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-weather 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-wiki 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jan 2 23:08 skill-wolfram-alpha 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 spotify-skill ``` Drilling further down with **`ls -AlR /opt/mycroft/skills`** shows _some_ files owned by root, deep in the bowels of various **`/.git/`** directories… Since we have two votes for “Don’t use sudo”, I’ve set the ownership of everything in the tree to **`mycroft`** and will see where that leads me. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970)._