title: 403 Insufficient OAuth2 scope to perform this operation
body: <p>I have a Google cloud vm instance that has a directory in a persistent disk that I want to transfer over to a bucket.  I'm using the command </p>
  
  <pre><code>gsutil cp -r directoryname gs://my-bucket
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it keeps giving me the error </p>
  
  <p>AccessDeniedException: 403 Insufficient OAuth2 scope to perform this operation. 
  Acceptable scopes: <a href="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform</a></p>
  
  <p>the vm instance has all Clouod API's enabled.</p>