Could not add GitHub account to Xcode; Clipped Error: GitHubHostBuiltInExtension.XCSo - xcode

I am trying to connect my GitHub account with Xcode. When I put in my credentials an error occurs, displaying clipped text. The text is not selectable nor is the window resizable. Is there a way to view/inspect the window elements so I can see the full message? Or better yet is anyone familiar with the error?
Note: Not sure if this is a question for here or Ask Different, I'll remove and repost on the other community if you guys think it's better suited.
Below is the partial error text and a screen shot.
The operation couldn't be completed. (GitHubHostBuiltInExtension.XCSo...

The full error should be:
GitHubHostBuiltInExtension.XCSourceControlHostRequestContext
It could be an iCloud account issue, or a right issue on the /Users/Shared folder.
sudo mkdir -p /Users/Shared
sudo chown root:wheel /Users/Shared
sudo chmod -R <userid>/Users/Shared

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Neofetch : acces denied folder .config

I need your help with an access issue with neofetch on my macOS.
Here the thing, I recently install neofetch on my terminal (oh-my-zsh), it works but, between the firts line (last login) and the logo that displays :
mkdir: /Users/'MYUSERNAME'/.config/neofetch/: Permission denied
/usr/local/bin/Neofetch: line 4476:
/Users/'MYUSERNAME'/.config/neofetch/config.conf: Permission denied
And I don't know why, of course, I did many types of research on google before asking you.
Do you have an idea?
You need to change the permissions for your config directory:
sudo chmod -R 666 /Users/YOURUSERNAME/.config
666 means Read-Write for all users.
Doing the same as garritfra did but with that last directory line you have there worked for me on a windows 10 machine though. It may work for the mac as well?
sudo chmod -R 666 /Users/MYUSERNAME/.config/neofetch/config.conf
Replace MYUSERNAME with whatever is shown in the error.
I was having the same issue and was able to solve this in the following way:
Open up Finder
Reveal hidden folders & files by pressing CMD+>+SHIFT
Locate the .config folder and right click it and click 'get info'.
Under the sharing & permissions section click the small plus and just add the entire Administrators group and remember to change the permissions to read & write for the entire group.
neofetch
Here is a bulletproof one-liner that solves the issue:
sudo chmod -R 710 $HOME/.config
Execute this command in a terminal session.
After restarting your terminal or, alternatively, sourcing your shell configuration file (assuming you have added the neofetch command to that file) with:
source ~/.zshrc
(replacing ~/.zshrc with the path to your shell configuration file if you are using a different one), the error prompt should disappear.
Note that this only gives 'execute' permission to the 'group' class. There is no need, as the currently accepted answer suggests, to give 666 or 777 modes as that needlessly makes your system less secure (not to mention even no. octal figures such as 666 don't even work as they fail to give the required 'execute' permission, which requires an odd number bit).
Modes such as 730, 750, and 770 will work, but unless something changes in neofetch's future update that demands it, it is unnecessarily too generous and I wouldn't advise it.
Finally, there is absolutely no reason to give users in the 'other' class any permission to the ~/.config directory (unless you have a very compelling reason to), and hence the last permission bit (3rd digit in the mode represented by octal numbers) should always remain 0.

How to set permissions of certain folders to 777 on Mac

I need to set the permissions of just 3 specific folders (on my Mac) to 777
I went to CMND+i (get info) but the folder permissions seemed to be Read and Write - but this didn't seem to fix it.
I am trying to work out how to do this, because I am using MAMP on my Mac to try and run a localhost server to test a website. Reason; I am trying to run the script of a PHP website. It is asking me to change the permissions of certain folders in order to proceed with the 'install'.
I think the closest match to a possible answer is here:
Java: Create a new dir with 777 permissions on Mac
But, this appears to be Java. I assume that I need to be able to do this via either MAMP or Terminal. If anyone could please advise me which program/tool to use and what to type in, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks
I know how to do it in a terminal, to create "/some/directory/some/where" you can use -
# EDIT: 777 not 077.
mkdir -p /some/directory/some/where && chmod 777 /some/directory/some/where

Can't create a symbolic link with Textmate in Terminal. (mate: command not found)

I'm currently going through http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ and it uses the command "mate" to access Textmate through the terminal. I have had Textmate on my Macbook Air (Lion OS) since I first bought it, but when I try to use a command like "mate .gitignore" the terminal gives me "mate: command not found".
I've looked through all other StackOverflow questions regarding this topic and have done the following:
Attempted to create a symbolic link through the terminal with this code.
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate /usr/bin
This code lets me enter my password and tells me the file exists, but still does not allow me to use the "mate" command.
Accessed Textmate/Help/Terminal Usage and tried to create a link for /usr/bin only for it to say operation not permitted.
Used alias mate='open -a textmate'. This works; however, I have to do it every time I open Terminal.
So, my question is can anyone tell me what is wrong? Love to figure this out!
Thank you!
First, you should not add anything to /usr/bin. You should add it into /usr/local/bin. Further, getting the message "file already exists" from ln means that it did not create the link. Try this:
ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate /usr/local/bin/mate
Depending on your current setup, this may have to be run with sudo. In general, if you don't know whether to run something with sudo or not, try without first and see if you get a permissions error, then use sudo.
The best way to do it is from TextMate -> preferences -> Terminal and then check install
all the previous methods didn't work for me.

Trying to connect Terminal to recognize "mate" command for TextMate

Couldn't Create Link
Creating the link “/usr/bin/mate” failed with the following reason: Operation not permitted
I am getting this error when I attempt to link the terminal usage with TextMate.
I did this by going Help >> Terminal Usage...
And I tried to create a link in /usr/bin.
I think the problem is something to do with permission issue.
I am wondering if there is a way to work around this problem by changing bash file directly or something and make terminal recognize "mate" as a command.
Thank you for any suggestion.
Assuming Textmate is installed in /Applications the following command in the terminal should manually create the link for you:
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate /usr/bin
The command will ask you for your user account's password so it has the permissions necessary to create the link in /usr/bin/
There should be an option to create it in /usr/local/bin. Create it there. Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH.

Unable to unlock file for editing in Xcode 4?

For some reason 2 of my files got locked and when I click the little lock icon in the upper right corner of the window it asks me if I would like to unlock, and doing so results in a "The file xxxx.h could not be unlocked" (Unlocking failed for an unknown reason). I have tried to restart Xcode, also tried to restart my machine with no help.
I am also unable to edit the files using BBEdit, I get the error "You do not have sufficient privileges to perform this operation (MacOS Error code: -5000)".
I'm running OS X Lion with Xcode 4.
Very strange as I have not made any changes to my system prior to this problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Open the file in any text editor. If the contents isn't text based you'll see a lot of gibberish. Ignore this, copy the contents. Open up a new text file. Paste the contents and save over the old file. This will copy just the contents of the file and ignore permissions.
What you're dealing with here is an ACL issue. If you ls -l the directory you'll see a little + on the end of the permission string:
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 eekyou staff 136 May 6 2011 eekyou.xcuserdatad
You can easily strip these off like so (in your project directory:
sudo chmod -R -E ./*
Hope this helps.
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The #eecue answer didn't help me. I user another Terminal command for complete removal of all ACL permissions:
sudo chmod -RN ./*
First check if the file is opened/locked by another program or user.
If it is not, the program probably crashed and failed to remove the flag, lookup the file and check with CMD+i if it is locked.
If it is not, permissions are probably wrong, so check the permission in the CMD+i dialog at the bottom, and apply them to everything in the enclosing folder (a .xcproject is a directory).
If this still doesn't work (like for me), there is a simple command line to unlock all files in a folder. ONLY do this if all the above steps have been checked / taken.
sudo chflags -R nouchg /Users/username/Development/GIT/MyProject
Replacing the project folder with your own project folder of course.
You may need to take ownership of the folder in which you wish to save your project. To do so, open up the console. Then type sudo chown $USER /path/to/your/project.

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