> 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 -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/24C2AAB3-0D8B-4CC8-AC88-B2B02FFF252D%40nbtsc.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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