By default on the Workbench virtual appliance, the IDE is run as root even though you may be logged in as a normal user (for example, the
vmware user). One side effect of this is that files that are created by the IDE, such as the recorded shell script/batch file, are owned by
root by default. If you log into Workbench as
root, you will not have any permission issues in retrieving the recorded log browser session script. However, if you have logged into Workbench as a regular user, such as
vmware, you will lack permissions to do anything with the script. To fix this, use one of the following commands to change the permissions: