Terminal Permission Denied

vedaant240 wrote:

I have admin access on my MacBook, but I keep getting "permission denied" in Terminal

P.S. I have the latest macOS and everything

Did you add Terminal to "Full Disk Access" (?)

Open System Preferences ▸ Security & Privacy. Select the Privacy tab. Select Full Disk Access, then click the lock icon to activate the +/- add your Terminal.app here.

Controlling app access to files in macOS - Apple Support

Does Terminal have "Full Disk Access" under the Security & Privacy control panel?

This is not a problem with Terminal but with whatever commands you are trying to execute in it.

You say you are trying to delete python.

How was it installed? Where is it installed?

What exactly are you trying to type in Terminal?

What are you doing when you get that error?

It is virtually impossible to determine with knowing the exact command and the exact error message.

That was probably not just "permission denied", but given also a file or folder path name.

The built-in version may not be in a location that is not protected. Are you trying g to delete a version you installed?