Permission denied to create /opt/ejson/keys

Question

I'm trying to use Shopify ejson https://github.com/Shopify/ejson

When I run:

mkdir -p /opt/ejson/keys

I get permission denied.

Answer 1

I found an answer in this Github issue: https://github.com/Shopify/ejson/issues/80

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/ejson

But would rather not have to use sudo