title: Heroku Deployment - PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/passwd-'
body: <p>Can anyone help me with this error? I don't what's wrong with the code. is it a database credentials error? Is it an application code error? Is it a Linux/Unix related error?</p>
  
  <p>This is my first time to deploy my application on Heroku but I got this error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/passwd-'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>   python ph_dorms/manage.py collectstatic --noinput
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "ph_dorms/manage.py", line 15, in &lt;module&gt;
         execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 371, in execute_from_command_line
         utility.execute()
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 365, in execute
         self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 288, in run_from_argv
         self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 335, in execute
         output = self.handle(*args, **options)
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 189, in handle
         collected = self.collect()
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 114, in collect
         handler(path, prefixed_path, storage)
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 353, in copy_file
         with source_storage.open(path) as source_file:
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 33, in open
         return self._open(name, mode)
       File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 218, in _open
         return File(open(self.path(name), mode))
     PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/passwd-'
     !     Error while running '$ python ph_dorms/manage.py collectstatic --noinput'.
     See traceback above for details.
     You may need to update application code to resolve this error.
     Or, you can disable collectstatic for this application:
        $ heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
     https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
    !     Push rejected, failed to compile Python app.
    !     Push failed
  </code></pre>