google cloud platform - gcloud components update permission denied

Question

All of a sudden I started getting "Permission Denied" issues when trying to run any gcloud commands such as gcloud components update -- the issue was avoided if I ran sudo gcloud components update but it's not clear to my why the sudo command is suddenly required? I have actually been trying to run a GCMLE experiment and it had the same error/warning, so I tried updating components and still ran into this issue. I have been travelling for a couple days and did not make any changes since these same commands worked a few days ago. Further, I did not changed my OS (Mac High Sierra 10.13.3) -- were there any changes on the Google side that might explain this change in behavior? What is the best course of action to permanently get around this warning?

(conda-env) MacBook-Pro:user$ gcloud components update
WARNING: Could not setup log file in /Users/$USERNAME/.config/gcloud/logs, (IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/Users/$USERNAME/.config/gcloud/logs/2018.03.10/XX.XX.XX.XXXXXX.log')

after sudo gcloud components update I was able to kick off a GCMLE experiment, but I also get the same warning (though my job now submits successfully).

WARNING: Could not setup log file in /Users/#USERNAME/.config/gcloud/logs, (IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/Users/$USERNAME/.config/gcloud/logs/2018.03.10/XX.XX.XX.XXXXXX.log')

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