Permission denied error when opening Terminal

Question

I'm using a clean install of 10.8. I wanted to add a couple of directories to my path. I tried adding them to /etc/paths using

sudo vim /etc/paths

Now when I open a terminal window I see this:

Last login: Wed Jan 23 15:42:57 on ttys001
/etc/paths: Permission denied
pcp067952pcs:~ myLoginName$

This doesn't affect usability, however it is something I would prefer to fix.

Any ideas? -Austin

Answer 1

solved by repairing permissions, thanks to jakebird451 and Mark in the comments above

i'm not sure is sudo is necessary, however this worked to fix it

sudo chmod 0644 /etc/paths

thanks!