Unable to use acli rovodev without sudo. Error: failed to store authentication configuration

[Tomasz Małecki]

Hi. 

Installed acli on my MacOS using homebrew

brew tap atlassian/homebrew-acli
brew install acli
acli --version

I am unable to auth using `acli rovodev auth login` using my email and token. 

In result - I authed using `sudo acli rovodev auth login` and that's the only way CLI now works. 

There is no logs from login procedure that I can share. 

[Christian Langeveld]

Did you do:

sudo mv ./acli /usr/local/bin/acli
sudo chown root: /usr/local/bin/acli

[Jovana Dunisijevic]

Hey @Tomasz Małecki 

Thank you for sharing these details!

This issue is often related to file permissions when installing ACLI via Homebrew on macOS. If you need to use sudo for authentication and running the CLI, it usually means the configuration or credential files were created with root ownership, so your regular user can't access them.

To fix it, try this:

1. Try resetting the permissions on the ACLI config directory:

   sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.acli ~/.rovodev

   This will ensure your user owns the config and credential files.

2. After that, try running acli rovodev auth login again (without sudo).

3. If you still have issues, try uninstalling and reinstalling ACLI as your regular user (not with sudo), and repeat the login process.

Why this happens:

• Running acli with sudo creates config files as root, which blocks normal user access.

• Homebrew installs should not require sudo for running CLI tools.

If you continue to have trouble, please let us know the exact error message or behaviour you see after fixing permissions. 

Kindest regards,

Jovana