Root Password prompt not appearing on Mac

When I try  "Connect Telepresence" after connecting on a cluster. I get the following error message 

“Failed to load config: open /Users/username/Library/Application Support/telepresence/config.yml: permission denied”

Which is the same message I get when I try the “telepresence connect” command in terminal without sudo.

Using the same command with “sudo” is working perfectly fine (on terminal).

I would expect Intellij to display a prompt for me to enter my user credentials, but it does not do that. When I try this on another Mac the prompt is displayed as expected.

Intellij has full disk access (although I'm not sure this is required)