erlang.cookie: eacces error

[codepantry]

I am on MAC OS X Yosemite and installed Rabbitmq 3.4.2. The install went well but I keep getting this cookie error “Error when reading /Users/myusername/.erlang.cookie: eacces” (full error is below).

The file is readable.
/Users/username/.erlang.cookie
-rw-------  1 Guest  staff    20B Jan 19 00:00 .erlang.cookie

This is a fresh install using Homebrew - http://www.rabbitmq.com/install-homebrew.html. This install is bundled with errlang so presumable need to (brew install erlang + SSL ??)
I followed steps on - https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-homebrew.html
and http://gordondickens.com/wordpress/2012/01/31/installing-and-configuring-rabbitmq/comment-page-1/ (This older article)

Here’s the full error and ay assistance is much appreciated.



{error_logger,{{2015,1,19},{16,39,4}},"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces",[]}
{error_logger,{{2015,1,19},{16,39,4}},crash_report,[[{initial_call,{auth,init,['Argument__1']}},{pid,<0.19.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,{"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces",[{auth,init_cookie,0,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,285}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,139}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,306}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]},[{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,330}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}},{ancestors,[net_sup,kernel_sup,<0.10.0>]},{messages,[]},{links,[<0.17.0>]},{dictionary,[]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,987},{stack_size,27},{reductions,657}],[]]}
{error_logger,{{2015,1,19},{16,39,4}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,net_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,{"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces",[{auth,init_cookie,0,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,285}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,139}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,306}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,auth},{mfargs,{auth,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,2000},{child_type,worker}]}]}
{error_logger,{{2015,1,19},{16,39,4}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,kernel_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,auth,{"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces",[{auth,init_cookie,0,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,285}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,139}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,306}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}}}},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,net_sup},{mfargs,{erl_distribution,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,infinity},{child_type,supervisor}]}]}
{error_logger,{{2015,1,19},{16,39,4}},crash_report,[[{initial_call,{application_master,init,['Argument__1','Argument__2','Argument__3','Argument__4']}},{pid,<0.9.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{exit,{{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,net_sup,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,auth,{"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces",

[{auth,init_cookie,0,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,285}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,139}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,306}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}}}}},{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}},[{application_master,init,4,[{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,133}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}},{ancestors,[<0.8.0>]},{messages,[{'EXIT',<0.10.0>,normal}]},{links,[<0.8.0>,<0.7.0>]},{dictionary,[]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,610},{stack_size,27},{reductions,150}],[]]}

{error_logger,{{2015,1,19},{16,39,4}},std_info,[{application,kernel},{exited,{{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,net_sup,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,auth,{"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces",[{auth,init_cookie,0,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,285}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,"auth.erl"},{line,139}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,306}]},

{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}}}}},{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{type,permanent}]}
{"Kernel pid terminated",application_controller,"{application_start_failure,kernel,{{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,net_sup,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,auth,{\"Error when reading /Users/username/.erlang.cookie: eacces\",[{auth,init_cookie,0,[{file,\"auth.erl\"},{line,285}]},{auth,init,1,[{file,\"auth.erl\"},{line,139}]},{gen_server,init_it,6,[{file,\"gen_server.erl\"},{line,306}]},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,[{file,\"proc_lib.erl\"},{line,239}]}]}}}}},{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}}"}
Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) ({application_start_failure,kernel,{{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,net_sup,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,auth,{"Error when reading /Users/username/






rabbitmqctl status

Status of node rabbit@sungura ...
Error: unable to connect to node rabbit@sungura: nodedown

DIAGNOSTICS
===========

attempted to contact: [rabbit@sungura]

rabbit@sungura:
  * connected to epmd (port 4369) on sungura
  * epmd reports: node 'rabbit' not running at all
                  no other nodes on sungura
  * suggestion: start the node

current node details:
- node name: 'rabbitmqctl-40941@sungura'
- home dir: /var/root
- cookie hash: LasAcWpkCvxskTzZ896BjQ==




sudo rabbitmq-server - only shows the below

              RabbitMQ 3.4.2. Copyright (C) 2007-2014 GoPivotal, Inc.
  ##  ##      Licensed under the MPL.  See http://www.rabbitmq.com/
  ##  ##
  ##########  Logs: /usr/local/var/log/rabbitmq/[e-mail]
  ######  ##        /usr/local/var/log/rabbitmq/[e-mail]
  ##########
              Starting broker... completed with 11 plugins.





 rabbitmqctl status
Status of node rabbit@sungura ...
[{pid,41177},
 {running_applications,
     [{rabbitmq_tracing,"RabbitMQ message logging / tracing","3.4.2"},
      {rabbitmq_management_visualiser,"RabbitMQ Visualiser","3.4.2"},
      {rabbitmq_management,"RabbitMQ Management Console","3.4.2"},
      {rabbitmq_web_dispatch,"RabbitMQ Web Dispatcher","3.4.2"},
      {webmachine,"webmachine","1.10.3-rmq3.4.2-gite9359c7"},
      {mochiweb,"MochiMedia Web Server","2.7.0-rmq3.4.2-git680dba8"},
      {rabbitmq_mqtt,"RabbitMQ MQTT Adapter","3.4.2"},
      {rabbitmq_stomp,"Embedded Rabbit Stomp Adapter","3.4.2"},
      {rabbitmq_management_agent,"RabbitMQ Management Agent","3.4.2"},
      {rabbitmq_amqp1_0,"AMQP 1.0 support for RabbitMQ","3.4.2"},
      {rabbit,"RabbitMQ","3.4.2"},
      {os_mon,"CPO  CXC 138 46","2.2.15"},
      {inets,"INETS  CXC 138 49","5.10.2"},
      {mnesia,"MNESIA  CXC 138 12","4.12.1"},
      {amqp_client,"RabbitMQ AMQP Client","3.4.2"},
      {xmerl,"XML parser","1.3.7"},
      {sasl,"SASL  CXC 138 11","2.4"},
      {stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.1"},
      {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","3.0.1"}]},
 {os,{unix,darwin}},
 {erlang_version,
     "Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:30] [hipe] [kernel-poll:true]\n"},
 {memory,
     [{total,42503200},
      {connection_readers,0},
      {connection_writers,0},
      {connection_channels,0},
      {connection_other,5616},
      {queue_procs,2808},
      {queue_slave_procs,0},
      {plugins,674576},
      {other_proc,13702488},
      {mnesia,61920},
      {mgmt_db,138200},
      {msg_index,47680},
      {other_ets,1278064},
      {binary,14528},
      {code,20456767},
      {atom,711569},
      {other_system,5408984}]},
 {alarms,[]},
 {listeners,
     [{clustering,25672,"::"},
      {amqp,5672,"::"},
      {stomp,61613,"::"},
      {mqtt,1883,"::"}]},
 {vm_memory_high_watermark,0.4},
 {vm_memory_limit,6251945984},
 {disk_free_limit,50000000},
 {disk_free,256883400704},
 {file_descriptors,
     [{total_limit,2460},
      {total_used,5},
      {sockets_limit,2212},
      {sockets_used,3}]},
 {processes,[{limit,1048576},{used,198}]},
 {run_queue,0},
 {uptime,400}]