File Permissions

Hi,

apologies if there is an existing thread about this but I couldn’t find one. I am running HA .55 on a RPI 3 in a virtual environment. I am bug free at present but I did have a problem with configuration file permissions on ‘known_devices.yaml’. I changed the ownership from ‘root’ to ‘homeassistant’ which solved the problem.

Some of the files have ‘homeassistant’ as the owner and some have ‘root’. I don’t know why they ended up this way and I was wondering if there is any significance and if I should change them all to ‘homeassistant’.

screen shot from WINSCP attached.

File permissions

Probably something to do with the way you installed it, or were editing files.

Ideally, yes, homeassistant should own everything in the folder (and below).

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Thanks a lot for your prompt reply. It makes sense that all should be owned by homeassistant.