# REHL - Unable to login to postman

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/rehl-unable-to-login-to-postman/531>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Tags:** authentication, login, linux\
**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/rehl-unable-to-login-to-postman/531 "2017-12-20T23:47:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jslaurenza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jslaurenza](https://community.postman.com/u/jslaurenza)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/rehl-unable-to-login-to-postman/531/1 "2017-12-20T23:47:44Z")

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I’m running the Postman Desktop app for Linux (Fedora) on RHEL 7.4 and suddenly I am unable to login to the app unless I run it as root.  
I tried logging in using Google as I have always done and it just takes me back to the application window with just the login screen.  
I tried resetting my password and logging in directly. I get the same result.  
Selecting any of the menu items in the application window does nothing also. File \> Preferences and nothing happens.  
I uninstalled the 5.5.0 update and reinstalled it again and that did not help.  
However, If run postman as root: sudo postman… It works fine, the application comes up already logged into my account and synchronizes fine.

The only thing I haven’t tried was removing the ~/.config/Postman directory because I was afraid I would loose all my collections… or worse.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I really hate to run have Postman as root…

-JEff

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**Author:** ![akshaybist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/akshaybist/32/94_2.png) [@akshaybist](https://community.postman.com/u/akshaybist)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/rehl-unable-to-login-to-postman/531/2 "2017-12-22T07:51:30Z")

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Hey @jslaurenza, does your user have permissions to read/write files in the `~/.config/Postman` directory?

Seems to me that you maybe installed Postman as root and now the root user owns your postman configuration.

You can check the owner of the config directory by running `ls -l ~/.config | grep Postman`.

If you don’t own the directory, you can change the owner by running `sudo chown -R <your-username-here> ~/.config/Postman`. This should fix the problem.