2015-01-07 1:35 GMT+01:00 Aria Stewart <[email protected]>: > > > On Jan 6, 2015, at 3:57 AM, zladuric <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Technically, sudo npm isn't running as root. It's running as that user, > but with root privileges. Do files get written as the user to, say, > /usr/local. > > I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference there. Either way, it's uid 0. > > Aria > > Yeah, the difference can be mostly ignored. Effectively, without -E flag to sudo, `sudo npm` would be just the same as if called from a root shell, environment doesn't get transfered like that.
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