Unable to read client-cert and client-key when trying to run kubectl get pods with minikube

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I'm on Ubuntu linux VM and trying to run minikube on it.

I installed kubectl via homebrew and then installed minikube by following below installation guides:
kubectl: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/#install-kubectl-on-linux
minikube: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/

I started minikube as sudo minikube start --driver=none which has the following output:
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When I run the command: kubectl get pods, I get an error:

Error in configuration:
* unable to read client-cert /home/jenkins/.minikube/profiles/minikube/client.crt for minikube due to open /home/jenkins/.minikube/profiles/minikube/client.crt: permission denied
* unable to read client-key /home/jenkins/.minikube/profiles/minikube/client.key for minikube due to open /home/jenkins/.minikube/profiles/minikube/client.key: permission denied

The user I'm installing all above is /home/jenkins. I'm not sure what's going wrong. Can someone help?

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3 Answers

There are 2 typical scenarios for such situations: either your keys were not created during minikube installation either you dont have proper permissions from your user.

For 1st case(not your) - you will clearly see in logs no such file or directory. To know more and how to resolve it - please refer to Unable to read client-cert/key Post Minikube Update

2nd is yours: client.crt: permission denied. Your current user doesnt have proper rights to read the file.

Resolution inside your screenshot. You should run below commands after cluster was created.

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From #8363 shared by this answer, I did nano ~/.kube/config and corrected the path..

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority: /home/username/.minikube/ca.crt
    server: https://192.168.64.3:8443
  name: minikube
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: minikube
    user: minikube
  name: minikube
current-context: minikube
kind: Config
users:
- name: minikube
  user:
    client-certificate: /home/username/.minikube/profiles/client.crt
    client-key: /home/username/.minikube/profiles/client.key
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