valet: Valet share does not use the "normal" ngrok config location by default?

Perhaps a bit off topic but if u have issues using valet because you need to add the authtooken generated at ngrok’s website it can be added like this:

~/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/bin/ngrok authtoken <YOUR_AUTHTOKEN>

As of today, the response by @brainmaniac is still the fix for me. Thank you!

Most puzzling.

Troubleshooting thoughts:

• When you run which ngrok does it bring anything up? The default is no. Unless you’ve added it to your path for some reason, in which case maybe it’s finding some other config or ignoring it.

• If you delete the config file (and directory, assuming it’s now empty), then you can let ngrok create it directly: /Users/thomas/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/bin/ngrok authtoken TOKENCODEHERE and then see if running valet share reads it properly

Mine is located at ~/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml and is loaded correctly whenever I run valet share. … and contains the following few simple settings.

I know it works because the authtoken recognizes and displays my account name whenever I run valet share.

authtoken: (redacted of course)

#docs: https://ngrok.com/docs

json_resolver_url: ""
dns_resolver_ips: []

# root_cas options: trusted, host, or path-to-a-CA-file
root_cas: trusted

# auto-update
update: true

The solution provided by @brainmaniac still solves the problem for me even now. Much appreciated, buddy.

Hmmm … ngrok is treating /var/root/ as your “home” directory (ie: ~). Valet calls sudo to run ngrok as “you” by passing your username to sudo -u, which it retrieves by running logname. I wonder if you’ve configured your mac or your shell to treat you as root whenever logname is called?

I guess however you’ve configured your mac may require you to customize the command in: /Users/thomas/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/valet https://github.com/laravel/valet/blob/d6558b90a5529f03752627798047f3a9e0543ab8/valet#L81