Unable to write the module manifest file: open .terraform/modules/modules.json: permission denied

Terraform
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While performing terraform init : i am getting below error
Initializing modules…
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│ Error: Failed to update module manifest
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│ Unable to write the module manifest file: open .terraform/modules/modules.json: permission denied
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Can someone please help !
Thanks in advance

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Hi @creative069,

This message suggests that you’re running Terraform in a directory that you don’t have write access to, and so Terraform failed to create this internal manifest which it uses to remember the locations of all of the modules installed by terraform init.