Permissions for ./root/homeassistant/config in Container

Configuration
1

Hi everyone,
I have HA on a container in Raspberry Pi and I can’t get to my config.yaml file because I dont seem to have permission to get to ./root

I installed it as indicated in HA webpage
Any ideas?

Thank you and sorry for the probably stupid qustion

2

I assume you ran

docker run -d \
  --name homeassistant \
  --privileged \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  -e TZ=MY_TIME_ZONE \
  -v /PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG:/config \
  --network=host \
  ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

So what did you type instead of /PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG

3

Hi,
it was some time ago so i’m not really sure but I know that my configuration file is at:
/root/homeassistant/config/configuration.yaml
and then I have also something at:
./var/lib/docker/overlay2/1e92ab088e8e70fb464e7d5fc5b4317fa75f764f04987cc79032bd7ab4b83b8d/merged/usr/src/homeassistant/.pre-commit-config.yaml

EDIT: But I can’t access either of them…working from the raspberry itself

4

what user are you using on the pi?

5

Barraco@raspeberrypi

6

Well you’ll need to use sudo, change to the root user or change the permissions to allow that user to read and write those files.

7

My prefered action would be changing the permissions but I m not sure if I know how to do that…?

8

You need to get familiar with chown and chmod.

9

Ok will try to find out. Thanks

10

sudo chown "barraco:barraco " /root/“barraco”/homeassistant/ -R

sudo chmod g+rwx “root/homeassistant” - R

Would it be something like this?

11

Something like that yes, but I think on refleection that HA may change things back when you edit a file in the gui, or it creates a new file.

12

I’m not sure I understand what you’ trying to say? If with this I can edit the configuration.yaml I’ll be happy :blush: