> On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Christopher Rust <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> > - a number of npm install scripts will fail when run with sudo,
> > because they are run with privs of nobody, and can't write to the fs,
> > the symptoms of which can be subtle and maddening to debug. I speak
> > from sad experience, here.
> 
> Can you comment anymore on this?
> 
> What does privileges of nobody mean? Why couldn't a command run as root write 
> to the fs?
> 

npm drops privileges when running scripts. If those scripts make broad 
assumptions, things break.

Aria

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