Permissions on WSL

Hello everyone I have a confussion here I'm using WSL (Windows Subsystem Linux) when I try to use a command like cat throws me the next:

luismiguells@Lenovo:~/Code$ cat main.c
cat: main.c: Permission denied

It's deny me the access but when I use sudo it's show me the content of the file, my question is, there's a way I can do this without using sudo everytime, by the way I've tried adding my user with sudo visudo but nothing happends.

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1 Answer

To fix you can use a find find all files with permission 0 and set it to rw-r--r--

find -perm 0 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

find all directories with permission 0 and set it to rwxr-xr-x

find -perm 0 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

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