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I've been trying to update the permissions so that I can run a command (specificially dotnet restore). I'm not sure if this issue is specific to running dotnet, or if it is more generic.

I can run the command using sudo dotnet restore, however I want to be able to run this command without sudo. This is because I want to execute these commands via a CI tool (Jenkins), and I don't want that tool to have access to root commands. . The Jenkins user is unable to run dotnet restore (because of the errors below) or sudo dotnet restore (because it doesn't have root access).

When I run without sudo, I have the following errors from dotnet restore:

/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.104/NuGet.targets(104,5): error : Access to the path '/{file_path_to_project.csproj}/obj' is denied. 
[{file_path_to_project.csproj}]
/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.104/NuGet.targets(104,5): error :   Permission denied [{file_path_to_project.csproj}]

I've been trying to update the read and write permissions for my user on the /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.104/NuGet.targets file, and the {file_path_to_project.csproj} directory, but so far I still get the same errors. Does it have something to do with the /obj directory? – When I run ls the obj file is not shown.

How can I update the permissions so that I can access these files without running sudo?

I created a /etc/sudoers.d/dotnet file to see if it would enable dotnet to be run without needing to call sudo. I added the following contents: {myusername} {myhostname} = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/dotnet. However, this still required me to run sudo before dotnet restore to get the correct output.

fuzzi
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One possibility is to use mono instead of dotnet. It's an open source implementation of the .NET framework and doesn't require root permission to run. It supports almost all of the .NET 4.7 features (see https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/compatibility/ for exceptions).

Peter Selinger
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