vagrant up (hostsupdater) fails with permission denied on /etc/hosts

[shankie-codes]

Obviously this isn't a universal problem, but on my machine, running vagrant up (as part of the 'getting started' instructions in the readme) fails with the following message:

/Users/shankie/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/vagrant-hostsupdater-1.0.1/lib/vagrant-hostsupdater/HostsUpdater.rb:85:in 'initialize': Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /etc/hosts (Errno::EACCES)

I've managed to work around it for now by:

sudo chmod o+w /etc/hosts

... but this seems like a Bad Idea!

Any thoughts anyone?

[shankie-codes]

I've worked around this in the meantime by adding myself to the wheel group and then making /etc/hosts group-writable.

Not ideal but works for now!

[standoutsites]

I'm having the same problem. Are there more people having this problem? So the suggested workaround is the only fix for now?

[jb510]

same issue. see: agiledivider/vagrant-hostsupdater#92

[jeremyfelt]

Thanks for raising the issue. I think we're going to want to move forward with supporting more than one hosts updating plugin. I'm going to close this out, but follow #606 and #815

[lock]

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