Improve error message thrown when missing permission to deploy to hosting (#7490)

Author: aalej

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 - Fixed an issue where `--force` was not respected during `firebase deploy --only storage`. (#7499)
 - Added support for Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) on Firestore databases. (#7479)
+- Improved error message thrown when missing permissions to deploy to hosting. (#7190)
 - Improved default values for 'init dataconnect:sdk'.
-- Fix functions:secrets:set - stop erroring in non-interactive flows without force option (#7467)
+- Fixed issue where `functions:secrets:set` wrongly errorred in non-interactive flows without force option (#7467)

src/commands/deploy.ts

@@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ export const command = new Command("deploy")
       try {
         await requireHostingSite(options);
       } catch (err: unknown) {
-        if (err === errNoDefaultSite) {
+        const isPermissionError =
+          err instanceof FirebaseError &&
+          err.original instanceof FirebaseError &&
+          err.original.status === 403;
+        if (isPermissionError) {
+          throw err;
+        } else if (err === errNoDefaultSite) {
           createSite = true;
         }
       }