Trouble rotating KES keys - permission denied

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Hey gang,
I’m one day away from my KES expiration date and have used the CoinCashew guide to generate new kes.vkey and kes.skey. My new KES period is 258.

I copied the kes keys to my air-gapped machine and ran the cardano-cli node issue-op-cert command but first was receiving errors. That my kes.vkey was invalid. I regenerated new keys and tried again, but now it says

command failed: node issue-op-cert Error:/home/airgap/cold-keys/node.counter: openBinaryFile:permission denied.

I have unlocked the cold-keys folder with
chmod u+rwx $HOME/cold-keys but to no avail.

Do you know the best way forward? Thanks!
-Sully

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I was able to run everything as the root and have now generated a new KES pair. Looks like my node is back up and going with another 90 days. So looks like I’m good there.

Do I have to run this as the root? Or can someone help me reset my permissions on my main user?

Thanks!

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Use chown command

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